Starting dovecot fails

[rockclimber42]

I have just installed dovecot on a fedora core 4 system and it fails on startup.

When I attempt to "service dovecot start", I get "Starting Dovecot Imap: [FAILED]"

There is nothing in the /var/log/messages or /var/log/maillog file of any consequence.

Is there a way to increase the logging information.

If I start "dovecot" without parameters, then it seems to start OK, but is not properly treated as a service.

Anyone run into this sort of problem before.

Thanks

Stanley

[rockclimber42]

It seems that I should have looked deeper at other threads on this forum to get the solution. In the end, I took the advice given by koenraad and telelarm and did the following:


restorecon -v -R /home
setsebool -P dovecot_disable_trans=1


dovecot now starts OK.

Thanks you for this help. I will stop banging my head against the wall now.

Stanley