[Dovecot] need help with dovecot-lda

[Andreas Meyer]

Hello!

Daniel Parthey <daniel.parthey at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:

> Andreas Meyer wrote:
> > Ben Morrow <ben at morrow.me.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > > > # su - vmail
> > > > vmail at delta:~> doveconf -m lda base_dir auth_socket_path
> > > > base_dir = /usr/var/run/dovecot
> > > > auth_socket_path = auth-userdb
> > > > 
> > > > But I don't know how to tell dovecot-lda to listen on sockets
> > > > in /usr/var/run/dovecot
> > > 
> > > Do you mean 'connect to'? It's important to be clear.
> > 
> > hm, what does dovecot-lda do? I think it tries to connect to
> > /usr/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb ?
> 
> Try to trace the open syscalls of dovecot-lda and its children:
> 
> strace -f -eopen /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda -f anmeyer at anup.de -d anmeyer at anup.de
> 

# strace -f -eopen /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda -f anmeyer at anup.de -d anmeyer at anup.de
open("/usr/lib/dovecot/tls/i686/sse2/libdovecot-lda.so.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/dovecot/tls/i686/libdovecot-lda.so.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/dovecot/tls/sse2/libdovecot-lda.so.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/dovecot/tls/libdovecot-lda.so.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/dovecot/i686/sse2/libdovecot-lda.so.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/dovecot/i686/libdovecot-lda.so.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/dovecot/sse2/libdovecot-lda.so.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-lda.so.0", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/usr/lib/dovecot/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY)      = 3
open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY)        = 3
open("/usr/lib/dovecot/librt.so.1", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/lib/librt.so.1", O_RDONLY)       = 3
open("/usr/lib/dovecot/libssl.so.0.9.8", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/usr/lib/dovecot/libcrypto.so.0.9.8", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/usr/lib/dovecot/libz.so.1", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/lib/libz.so.1", O_RDONLY)        = 3
open("/usr/lib/dovecot/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/lib/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY)       = 3
open("/lib/libpthread.so.0", O_RDONLY)  = 3
open("/var/log/dovecot-lda-errors.log", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_APPEND|O_LARGEFILE, 0600) = 6
open("/var/log/dovecot-lda.log", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_APPEND|O_LARGEFILE, 0600) = 7
open("/usr/lib/dovecot", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 8
open("/usr/lib/dovecot/lib90_sieve_plugin.so", O_RDONLY) = 8
open("/usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-sieve.so.0", O_RDONLY) = 8
open("/var/log/dovecot-lda-errors.log", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_APPEND|O_LARGEFILE, 0600) = 6
open("/var/log/dovecot-lda.log", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_APPEND|O_LARGEFILE, 0600) = 7

> This should give you an idea about which files
> dovecot-lda really tries to open.

Can't really say there is something wrong. It seems to find everything
it is looking for.

> 
> Regards
> Daniel

Andreas