httpd and dovecot service start fails

[Bob McClure Jr]

On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 09:43:02PM -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
> I'm installing FC4 on an old machine after having success on a new
> machine. I did a new install (instead of update) and modified the same
> configs I modified on the new machine. Here's the latest problem. This is
> getting real close to working correctly!
> 
> If I do /sbin/service httpd restart or /sbin/service dovecot restart, the
> restart fails (the stop fails too since they did not start properly during
> boot). However, if I do /usr/sbin/httpd or /usr/sbin/dovecot , they both
> seem to run fine. How can I find out what's going wrong during boot or
> restart that's causing these to not run? I've looked in the httpd logs and
> the messages log and found nothing.

Look again.  For httpd, look in /var/log/httpd/error_log.  For
dovecot, look in /var/log/maillog.  If a service isn't starting
properly, there _must_ be some information either on the screen or in
a log.

> THANKS!
> 
> Harold

Cheers,
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Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
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