Cassandane for 2.4

[Greg Banks]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012, at 09:57 PM, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> So I'm working on patches for the next 2.4 as well, and
> I find that Cassandane isn't so happy with 2.4!
> 
> Jan 18 21:55:59 launde 2055591/master[26844]: unable to initialize groups
> for user cyrus: Operation not permitted
> Jan 18 21:55:59 launde 2055591/master[26844]: can't change to the cyrus
> user: Operation not permitted
> Jan 18 21:55:59 launde 2055591/master[26842]: process 26844 exited,
> status 1
> Jan 18 21:55:59 launde 2055591/master[26842]: unable to initialize groups
> for user cyrus: Operation not permitted
> Jan 18 21:55:59 launde 2055591/master[26842]: can't change to the cyrus
> user: Operation not permitted
> 
> It would be great to keep a branch that can test cyrus-imapd-2.4
> as well, while we're still doing stable releases :)

I agree, and it's my intention to set up such a branch once I've massaged
the hudson.cyrusimap.org environment to be able to run on master.

However the problem in this case is probably not Cassandane but Cyrus, in
particular the 2.4 branch is missing commit

a5caf503c7060b4f1ec546e4dc6fe75e5b9c4029 gnb hack: allow running as the cyrus user

See section 1 in cassandane/doc/setting_up.txt

-- 
Greg.