ubuntu serve - cyrus fails to start

[Bron Gondwana]

Nothing in syslog? That's where I would be looking for startup messages
from cyrus master.

Bron.


On Wed, Apr 29, 2015, at 09:49 AM, lowpass wrote:
> 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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>>
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