Am 09.01.2014 15:38, schrieb Ken Drummond: > thanks for maintaining dbmail for gentoo. I seem to have a problem with the > .pid file in 3.1.7. After a reboot I get > > dbmail-imapd[3704]: [0x750230] EMERGENCY:[pidfile] pidfile_create(+113): > Cannot open pidfile > [/var/run/dbmail/dbmail-imapd.pid], error was [No such file or directory] > > in /var/log/dbmail.err when I try to start dbmail. Somehow the /run/dbmail > directory gets deleted (/var/run is a > symlink to /run). I'm not really sure why it's using the dbmail subdirectory > because the /etc/dbmail/dbmail.conf > file I have > > pid_directory = /var/run > > in the [DBMAIL] section. > > Not really sure if this is a gentoo specific error, and it's easily fixed by > manually creating the dbmail > directory. My server normally stays up for months at a time so not a huge > impact, but I do need to remember > an go and manually fix things when a reboot happens
i guess you are using systemd /run is a tmpfs andany software package using subfoldfers there needs tmpfiles.d http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/tmpfiles.d.html [root@mail:~]$ cat /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/dbmail.conf d /run/dbmail 0755 dbmail dbmail - [root@mail:~]$ rpm -q --file /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/dbmail.conf dbmail-3.1.9-4.fc19.20140107.rh.e5ad1e579562e22fc215b6186696eaba07213cb1.x86_64
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