Re: need some OT help

2012-05-02 Thread Glenn English
On May 2, 2012, at 3:23 PM, Tom Hendrikx wrote: > Sorry for being an arse, but I fail to see why you don't simply follow > up on my advise (and report back) over at [sdlu] about this I did what you suggested (turning on the verbose auth logging in Dovecot) and replied about it. Thanked you prof

Re: need some OT help

2012-05-02 Thread Tom Hendrikx
On 02-05-12 22:45, ghe wrote: > > I've asked on several lists, googled, and read books. I can't figure out > what's going on. I thought the lack of rhost= indicated one of my monit > monitors. So I turned them all off, and the entries came right in. > Sorry for being an arse, but I fail to see

Re: need some OT help

2012-05-02 Thread ghe
On 5/2/12 2:57 PM, Gary Chambers wrote: If this is an Ubuntu system, it could be a problem with the dovecot PAM authentication configuration. Well, it's Debian -- that's pretty close :-) I saw this problem a couple of years ago, fixed it (but don't remember how), but then an update to my ser

Re: need some OT help

2012-05-02 Thread Gary Chambers
Glenn, May 2 14:02:15 server dovecot-auth: pam_unix(dovecot:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=dovecot ruser=be rhost= If this is an Ubuntu system, it could be a problem with the dovecot PAM authentication configuration. I saw this problem a couple of years ago, fixed i

need some OT help

2012-05-02 Thread ghe
I've been having an interesting (to me) problem. I'm getting auth.log entries like this: May 2 14:02:15 server dovecot-auth: pam_unix(dovecot:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=dovecot ruser=be rhost= every 10 minutes. Note the empty rhost= data. 'be' was a username --