# /etc/dovecot.conf
base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/
protocols: imap
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
first_valid_uid: 10000
last_valid_uid: 10000
first_valid_gid: 10000
last_valid_gid: 10000
mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n/
mail_debug: yes
auth default:
  mechanisms: plain login
  verbose: yes
  debug: yes
  debug_passwords: yes
  passdb:
    driver: ldap
    args: /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf
  userdb:
    driver: static
    args: uid=10000 gid=10000 home=/home/vmail/%d/%n
  userdb:
    driver: prefetch
    args: /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf
  userdb:
    driver: ldap
    args: /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf
  socket:
    type: listen
    client:
      path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client
      mode: 432
      user: dovecot
      group: dovecot
    master:
      path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
      mode: 432
      user: dovecot
      group: dovecot



When I start the init script, logs show:

Nov 27 18:03:47 miles2 dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.rc15 starting up
Nov 27 18:03:48 miles2 dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down
Nov 27 18:03:48 miles2 dovecot: auth(default): bind(/var/run/dovecot/auth-client) failed: Permission denied
Nov 27 18:03:48 miles2 dovecot: auth(default): net_listen_unix(/var/run/dovecot/auth-client) failed: Permission denied
Nov 27 18:03:48 miles2 dovecot: child 2084 (auth) returned error 89
Nov 27 18:03:48 miles2 dovecot: Temporary failure in creating login processes, slowing down for now



When I start it manually, I get processes:

root      2128  0.0  0.3   1836   460 ?        Ss   18:06   0:00 dovecot
root      2129  0.1  1.5   7148  1916 ?        S    18:06   0:00 dovecot-auth
dovecot   2130  0.0  1.0   4364  1372 ?        S    18:06   0:00 imap-login
dovecot   2131  0.0  1.0   4368  1376 ?        S    18:06   0:00 imap-login
dovecot   2132  0.0  1.0   4368  1376 ?        S    18:06   0:00 imap-login