however, additional info to this topic if you are running Fedora >= 15 or any other distribution using "systemd" instead sysvinit /var/run/ is only a zmpfs and created folders are lost at the next rebuild
the "/etc/tmpfiles.d/dbmail.conf" below creates it autoamatically at boot, one oftne made packaging mistake to forget this and create the directory only at install time leading to work the first [root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ mount | grep /var/run tmpfs on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=755) [root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ cat /etc/tmpfiles.d/dbmail.conf d /var/run/dbmail 0755 dbmail dbmail - Am 25.02.2012 11:19, schrieb Peter Milesson: > Sorry I brought this up. It was answered in previous posts (should probably > clean my glasses ;-) > > Peter > > On 25.2.2012 10:41, Peter Milesson wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I struggled for quite a few hours trying to get the imapd and lmtpd >> daemons running. They always ended with a segment fault before coming up. >> >> After trying to track down the issue, it seems like the pid-files for >> the daemons cannot be created in /var/run with the nobody:nogroup >> privileges. When I created the directory /var/run/dbmail, with >> nobody:nogroup ownership, and started both daemons with the parameter -p >> and explicitly assigned the full path to the pid-files in >> /var/run/dbmail, everything worked OK. >> >> I'm replacing an older DBMail 2.2.16 installation, and there is no issue >> with that, the pid-files and state-files owned by root:root, but under >> 3.0.0, they are owned by nobody:nogroup. >> >> I've not seen it in the documentation, maybe it should be mentioned, as >> it saves lots of troubleshooting. >> >> OS: Slackware 13.37 x86_64 (same problem under two different installations) -- Mit besten Grüßen, Reindl Harald the lounge interactive design GmbH A-1060 Vienna, Hofmühlgasse 17 CTO / software-development / cms-solutions p: +43 (1) 595 3999 33, m: +43 (676) 40 221 40 icq: 154546673, http://www.thelounge.net/ http://www.thelounge.net/signature.asc.what.htm
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