[lievacke]

hmmm.. part of my post vanished!

* /opt/zimbra/redolog/redo.log was owned by root:

langoest:~# ls -l /opt/zimbra/redolog/redo.log
-rw-r----- 1 root root 512 Apr 15 10:46 /opt/zimbra/redolog/redo.log

langoest:~# chown root:root /opt/zimbra/redolog/redo.log

langoest:~# su - zimbra -c 'zmcontrol start'
Host langoest.ugent.be
Starting logger...Done.
Starting mailbox...Done.
Starting spell...Done.

langoest:~# su - zimbra -c 'zmcontrol status'
Host langoest.ugent.be
logger Running
mailbox Running
spell Running

The rest of the story indicated a missing init script (previous post of droefs)

langoest:~# cp -a /opt/zimbra/libexec/zimbra /etc/init.d/

[paste the previous post here]

Lieven