Kenneth Porter wrote:
dovecot-1.0-1.2.rc15.el5 on CentOS 5
I reboot the server and dovecot fails to start. But I can then issue "service dovecot start" and it starts up just fine. How to debug? I don't see anything in /var/log/messages nor /var/log/maillog.
I did have to set SELinux to permissive (in /etc/selinux/config), as dovecot can't get at its SSL certs. I'm debugging that independently. (SELinux is also disabled for clamav, another item to debug.)
This is something I am having problems with using USB2 connected external storage.
The USB filesystems are not initialized when it is time for mount ... therefore I need to do a noauto in /etc/fstab and mount them later in the boot process.
This caused httpd to not start (as there was a directory used as the DocumentRoot for a Virtual Machine on the USB drive).
Is it possible that you are mounting a filesystem after the postfix tries to start ... and it is available after startup but not at init.d/postfix start time?