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Christian Spoo wrote: |
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>>> I've been running net-mail/courier-imap version 4.0.1 for quite a while |
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>>> but suddenly it refuses to restart. |
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>>> |
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>> "Suddenly" ? |
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> Yes because I rebooted the machine. Normally, Courier should start |
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> because it's activated using rc-update but it simply doesn't. |
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> Perhaps I should mention that courier-authlib runs without problems. |
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Then - taking into account the following about the logs - it may be a |
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permission issue. |
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Check the user authlib and courier-imap run as, and whether it looks |
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like this has changed. |
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Also check the auth log for info on this. |
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>>> A /etc/init.d/courier-imapd restart simply fails. |
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>>> |
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>> Fails how - what is in the system and mail logs ? |
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> www ~ # /etc/init.d/courier-imapd start |
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> * Starting courier-imapd ... |
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> [ !! ] |
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> www ~ # tail -n 100 /var/log/mail/current | grep courier |
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> www ~ # tail -n 100 /var/log/everything/current | grep courier |
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> www ~ # |
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> As you can see, none of these two logfiles contains anything regarding |
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> Courier. |
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>>> I can run the server manually by issuing the following: |
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>>> /usr/lib/courier-imap/couriertcpd -address=0 |
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>>> -stderrlogger=/usr/lib/courier-imap/courierlogger |
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>>> -stderrloggername=imapd -maxprocs=40 -maxperip=10 |
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>>> -pid=/var/run/imapd.pid -nodnslookup -noidentlookup 143 |
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>>> /usr/sbin/imaplogin /usr/sbin/courier-imapd .Maildir |
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>>> |
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>> Have you compared this cmdline with the one run by the initscript ? |
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> This is the cmdline which is run by the initscript. I added a "set -x" |
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> on top of /usr/lib/courier-imap/gentoo-imapd.rc trying to debug this |
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> script. That way I got this command. |
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> This is exactly why I'm so stuck about this. The initscript should run |
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> this line and apparently it does but the imapd doesn't start, at least |
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> when invoked by the initscript. In a regular shell I can run it without |
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> problems as I stated above. |
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> Christian |
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