D G Teed wrote: > I'm looking at the various guides I see from google and from > that deposited by Redhat's RPM for cyrus-imapd. Nothing > appears to be really current. > > Most guides refer to building cyrus from source. I usually > avoid doing that as it is a hassle to maintain packages that way, > but then again Redhat has not updated their build in the last > 2 years so perhaps it doesn't matter. > > I have a problem starting cyrus from the Redhat package and > the init script. > > I can start /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/cyrus-master as root > and it works OK. I can login as cyrus with imtest. > > If I run the cyrus-impad init, which works fine on > another Redhat install, I get errors: > > Feb 3 16:20:34 navi master[13825]: process started > Feb 3 16:20:34 navi master[13827]: about to exec > /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/ctl_cyrusdb > Feb 3 16:20:34 navi ctl_cyrusdb[13827]: DBERROR db4: /cyrus/imap/db: > Permission denied > Feb 3 16:20:34 navi ctl_cyrusdb[13827]: DBERROR db4: > /cyrus/imap/db/__db.001: Permission denied > Feb 3 16:20:34 navi ctl_cyrusdb[13827]: DBERROR: dbenv->open > '/cyrus/imap/db' failed: Permission denied > Feb 3 16:20:34 navi ctl_cyrusdb[13827]: DBERROR: init() on berkeley > Feb 3 16:20:34 navi ctl_cyrusdb[13827]: DBERROR: writing > /cyrus/imap/db/skipstamp: Permission denied > Feb 3 16:20:34 navi ctl_cyrusdb[13827]: DBERROR: init() on skiplist > Feb 3 16:20:34 navi ctl_cyrusdb[13827]: recovering cyrus databases > Feb 3 16:20:34 navi ctl_cyrusdb[13827]: IOERROR: opening > /cyrus/imap/mailboxes.db: Permission denied > Feb 3 16:20:34 navi ctl_cyrusdb[13827]: DBERROR: opening > /cyrus/imap/mailboxes.db: cyrusdb error > Feb 3 16:20:34 navi master[13825]: process 13827 exited, status 75 > Feb 3 16:20:34 navi master[13828]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/idled > Feb 3 16:20:34 navi idled[13828]: DBERROR: dbenv->open '/cyrus/imap/db' > failed: Permission denied > Feb 3 16:20:34 navi idled[13828]: DBERROR: init() on berkeley > Feb 3 16:20:34 navi idled[13828]: DBERROR: reading > /cyrus/imap/db/skipstamp, assuming the worst: Permission denied > > And it goes on until I stop the service. > > The files and directories are owned by cyrus, so the permissions issue > seems odd. E..g. > > ls -l /cyrus/imap/ > total 100 > -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 144 Feb 3 16:15 annotations.db > drwx------ 2 cyrus mail 4096 Feb 3 16:20 db > drwx------ 2 cyrus mail 4096 Feb 3 16:15 db.backup1 > -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 8192 Feb 3 16:15 deliver.db > drwx------ 2 cyrus mail 4096 Feb 3 13:40 log > -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 144 Feb 3 16:15 mailboxes.db > drwx------ 2 cyrus mail 4096 Feb 3 13:40 msg > drwx------ 2 cyrus mail 4096 Feb 3 16:17 proc > drwx------ 2 cyrus mail 4096 Feb 3 13:40 ptclient > drwx------ 2 cyrus mail 4096 Feb 3 16:20 rpm > drwxr-x--- 2 cyrus mail 4096 Feb 3 16:15 socket > drwx------ 2 cyrus mail 4096 Feb 3 13:40 sync > > I have one other Redhat server running this OK, but I don't know what > the difference is. > For this reason, I'd rather not fix the problem by building from source > and having different styles of cyrus running. > > Does anyone have a pointer? What does the following commands output? ls -ld /cyrus ls -ld /cyrus/imap > > --Donald > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ---- > Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ > Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki > List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
