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? --Donald
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