[TriLUG] dovecot error

Joseph Tate dragonstrider at gmail.com
Wed May 10 17:06:01 EDT 2006


Sounds like a permissions problem.  Dovecot starts as root, and then
drops to a non-privileged user.  That user probably doesn't have
access to the working directory, or its parent dir.

On 5/10/06, Douglas Ward <binaryflow at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to implement dovecot for use as an imap server with postfix and
> squirrelmail.  When I start up dovecot I get the following error:
>
> shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent
> directories: No such file or directory
>
> Any ideas what this means?

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