Re: [Dovecot] Upgrade to 2.0 - Not so smooth

2010-08-16 Thread William Blunn
On 15/08/2010 22:49, Marc Perkel wrote: On 8/15/2010 2:32 PM, Marcus Rueckert wrote: On 2010-08-15 14:01:25 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: Seems to me that it wouldn't take a lot of code to at lease find if they have adduser or useradd. that is 2 out of many solutions. and depending of the admin

Re: [Dovecot] Upgrade to 2.0 - Not so smooth

2010-08-16 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-08-15 12:03 PM, Marc Perkel m...@perkel.com wrote: Starting Dovecot Imap: Fatal: service(pop3-login) User doesn't exist: dovenull Just some real time feedback. I don't know what dovenull user is or why it is necessary. It would be a lot smoother (and this probably applies to all

Re: [Dovecot] Upgrade to 2.0 - Not so smooth

2010-08-16 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
On Aug 15, 2010, at 9:04 PM, Jim wrote: On Aug 15, 2010, at 4:01 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: Seems to me that it wouldn't take a lot of code to at lease find if they have adduser or useradd. Or in the case of OS X, dscl... Documenting this is good, but perhaps the configure script could

Re: [Dovecot] Upgrade to 2.0 - Not so smooth

2010-08-16 Thread Marc Perkel
On 8/16/2010 2:45 AM, William Blunn wrote: On 15/08/2010 22:49, Marc Perkel wrote: On 8/15/2010 2:32 PM, Marcus Rueckert wrote: On 2010-08-15 14:01:25 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: Seems to me that it wouldn't take a lot of code to at lease find if they have adduser or useradd. that is 2 out

Re: [Dovecot] Upgrade to 2.0 - Not so smooth

2010-08-16 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 07:16 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: Maybe dovecot could use the nobody user if dovenull doesn't exist? The entire point of dovenull user is that it's not used by anything else. The only things I'm going to change here is to make the error message somewhat better for v2.0.1 and

Re: [Dovecot] Upgrade to 2.0 - Not so smooth

2010-08-16 Thread Marcus Rueckert
On 2010-08-16 07:16:46 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: Maybe dovecot could use the nobody user if dovenull doesn't exist? you could just read the warning message, create the user and stop worrying? and no ... it shouldnt fallback to nobody. a broken set up is a broken setup and needs to be fixed.

Re: [Dovecot] Upgrade to 2.0 - Not so smooth

2010-08-16 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 2010-08-16 07:16:46 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: Maybe dovecot could use the nobody user if dovenull doesn't exist? you could just read the warning message, create the user and stop worrying? and no ... it shouldnt fallback to nobody. a broken set up is a broken setup and needs to be

Re: [Dovecot] Upgrade to 2.0 - Not so smooth

2010-08-15 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 15.8.2010, at 17.03, Marc Perkel wrote: Starting Dovecot Imap: Fatal: service(pop3-login) User doesn't exist: dovenull Just some real time feedback. I don't know what dovenull user is or why it is necessary. I added now to http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Upgrading/2.0 : - Dovecot uses two

Re: [Dovecot] Upgrade to 2.0 - Not so smooth

2010-08-15 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 15.8.2010, at 17.03, Marc Perkel wrote: Starting Dovecot Imap: Fatal: service(pop3-login) User doesn't exist: dovenull Just some real time feedback. I don't know what dovenull user is or why it is necessary. I added now to http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Upgrading/2.0 : - Dovecot uses two

Re: [Dovecot] Upgrade to 2.0 - Not so smooth

2010-08-15 Thread William Blunn
On 15/08/2010 17:14, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 15.8.2010, at 17.03, Marc Perkel wrote: Starting Dovecot Imap: Fatal: service(pop3-login) User doesn't exist: dovenull Just some real time feedback. I don't know what dovenull user is or why it is necessary. I added now to

Re: [Dovecot] Upgrade to 2.0 - Not so smooth

2010-08-15 Thread Marc Perkel
On 8/15/2010 9:10 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 15.8.2010, at 17.03, Marc Perkel wrote: Starting Dovecot Imap: Fatal: service(pop3-login) User doesn't exist: dovenull Just some real time feedback. I don't know what dovenull user is or why it is necessary. I added now to

Re: [Dovecot] Upgrade to 2.0 - Not so smooth

2010-08-15 Thread Marcus Rueckert
On 2010-08-15 09:44:49 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: might want to automatically add dovenull to the install script if possible. Perhaps a better error message than the one above that indicates the solution is to create the dovenull user. I dont think you can know all the different tools distros

Re: [Dovecot] Upgrade to 2.0 - Not so smooth

2010-08-15 Thread Marc Perkel
On 8/15/2010 9:58 AM, Marcus Rueckert wrote: On 2010-08-15 09:44:49 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: might want to automatically add dovenull to the install script if possible. Perhaps a better error message than the one above that indicates the solution is to create the dovenull user. I dont think

Re: [Dovecot] Upgrade to 2.0 - Not so smooth

2010-08-15 Thread Jim
On Aug 15, 2010, at 4:01 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: Seems to me that it wouldn't take a lot of code to at lease find if they have adduser or useradd. Or in the case of OS X, dscl... Documenting this is good, but perhaps the configure script could check if the user exists, and instruct the user