X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:15:09 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Running dovecot under Cygwin Message-ID: <20071217151509.GA18608@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 03:08:47PM +0100, Ronny wrote: > Hi, > > i am trying to get imap server "dovecot" running under cygwin. > > Compiling the server finished without any errors. > But running the server does not work. > > As far as i can see, dovecot runs a master process, that uses execv to > launch a child (auth) process. The child process is killed immedeatly. > This causes the whole server to shutdown. > > Does anybody have experience with running dovecot under cygwin? I don't but you might be able to get some clues from looking at strace output. I'd be surprised if there wasn't some sort of verbose logging available for dovecot as well. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/