ubuntu serve - cyrus fails to start

[lowpass]

Thanks for the quick response, Bron. The symlink is ok.

# ls -l /var/run
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Oct 18  2014 /var/run -> /run/

I tried creating the dir myself as you suggested:

# mkdir /run/cyrus
# chown cyrus /run/cyrus/
# service cyrus-imapd start
[nothing]

I tried removing the --quiet flag from the startup script with same (non)
results.

What about the pid? As i understand, it's not cyrus that creates that on
startrup. In any case, it's NOT being created. From /etc/init.d/cyrus-imapd:

NAME=cyrmaster
PIDFILE="/var/run/${NAME}.pid"

I've posted a message on the Ubuntu forum as well, as i've a feeling the
problem is not with cyrus. I was hoping, though, that another cyrus user
might have run into this.

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 6:55 PM, Bron Gondwana <brong at fastmail.fm> wrote:

>
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015, at 08:46 AM, lowpass wrote:
>
> I do have socket and lock dirs under /var/lib/cyrus but they were last
> modified several years ago and seem to be left over from some other config.
> Other dirs there have seen more recent activity. Everything seems to be
> pointing towards the socket & lock dirs being created under /run but
> there's nothing there.
>
>
> /run is a tmpfs which gets created fresh on each reboot.
>
> Cyrus starts as user 'cyrus' and has no permission to create the
> directories it needs.
>
> Your init script should create the directories - but if you moved them
> somewhere other than where the package expects them to be, then it won't
> create intermediate directories for you.
>
> So, here's the thing:
>
> 1) double check that /var/run and /run are the same place - they're mostly
> a symlink in recent Debian/Ubuntu systems.  If not, I suggest that you
> audit your configuration to be all in /var/run or all in /run (probably a
> good idea anyway for more consistency.
>
> 2) run these commands as root:
>
> mkdir /run/cyrus
> chown cyrus /run/cyrus
>
> 3) either put those commands in a startup script that runs before Cyrus
> starts, or edit the init script for Cyrus - though note that if you edit
> the init script, you'll have to re-apply those edits on upgrade.
>
> Unfortunately, this isn't something we can fix in the Cyrus binaries.
> They try to create the directories, but they just plain don't have
> permissions to do so at that stage of the process.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bron.
>
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> brong at fastmail.fm
>
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