On 10/01/2014 7:14 PM, Thomas Raschbacher wrote:
On 2014-01-09 15:51, Reindl Harald wrote:
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
You're welcome ;)
nope I don't use systemd anyway I found the problem:
from the init script:
....
PID_DIR=/var/run/dbmail
....
--pidfile $PID_DIR/$PROGRAM.$PID
....
I guess since the pid file is specified in the config anyway it could
be argued, that having the PID_DIR in the init script as well is
pointless.
What do you think should we:
A) keep it in there too (and potentially confuse people)
B) keep it and use the default from dbmail.conf
C) remove it and maybe put a comment in the script that it is
specifiedi n the config
(( D) read the path from the config and use it --- i don't really want
to do that since it could lead to all sorts of problems ))
I tend lean towards C what do you think? -- also I got some new init
scripts prepared, which I am testing at the moment to have one per
service again since I am not keen on restarting all services all the
time when something crashes (also from monit automatically so ..)
I'll send them to paul - or make a git pull request if I figure out
how that works again [never done it before] - to be included in the
next release.
Regards
Thanks Harald,
I actually don't use systemd. I use the gentoo default, openrc (version
0.12.4). I think Thomas found the problem.
Thomas,
yes I see now, the init script does set the pidfile, making the setting
in dbmail.conf irrelevant. Are these init scripts gentoo specific or
are they standard?
I'm not sure it matters which option is chosen if the directory
specified (either in the init script or .conf file) doesn't exist, then
this is going to fail until the directory is created (with the
appropriate security). Or does dbmail create the directory if the the
setting in the .conf file is used?
Thanks,
Ken.
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