All,
I was mistaken in how I described my problem, please forgive this dovecot newbie for describing the problem incorrectly! It is not under xinitd, it is trying to run as an init.d service.
Ok, let's try again...
I am able to run it from a root shell prompt, but the errors below occur if it was started as a SERVICE, e.g. from the init.d script. So now the question is: what is different in those two environments...?
Thanks, hope this clarifies things,
/Mark
-----Original Message----- From: Stan Hoeppner [mailto:stan@hardwarefreak.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 1:42 AM To: Mark Jeghers Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] dovecot runs from shell, but not xinetd
On 3/20/2012 11:26 PM, Mark Jeghers wrote:
Hi Stan
Afraid it did not help. Here is what I got:
*** entered into a telnet session... user ann +OK pass ******** -ERR [IN-USE] Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2012-03-20 21:16:05] Connection closed by foreign host. [root@t4pserver2 mailpop3]#
*** resulted in maillog... Mar 20 21:16:05 t4pserver2 dovecot: auth: Debug: passwd-file(ann,::1): lookup: user=ann file=/etc/passwd.dovecot Mar 20 21:16:05 t4pserver2 dovecot: auth: Debug: client out: OK#0112#011user=ann Mar 20 21:16:05 t4pserver2 dovecot: auth: Debug: master in: REQUEST#0113180593153#01113546#0112#0116c9a0569dcd246a9f9e7a94dbe852843 Mar 20 21:16:05 t4pserver2 dovecot: auth: Debug: passwd(ann,::1): lookup Mar 20 21:16:05 t4pserver2 dovecot: auth: Debug: master out: USER#0113180593153#011ann#011system_groups_user=ann#011uid=501#011gid=501#011home=/home/ann Mar 20 21:16:05 t4pserver2 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<ann>, method=PLAIN, rip=::1, lip=::1, mpid=13549, secured Mar 20 21:16:05 t4pserver2 dovecot: pop3(ann): Debug: Effective uid=501, gid=501, home=/home/ann Mar 20 21:16:05 t4pserver2 dovecot: pop3(ann): Debug: fs: root=/var/spool/mailpop3, index=, control=, inbox=/var/spool/mailpop3/ann Mar 20 21:16:05 t4pserver2 dovecot: pop3(ann): Error: stat(/var/spool/mailpop3/ann) failed: Permission denied Mar 20 21:16:05 t4pserver2 dovecot: pop3(ann): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /var/spool/mailpop3: mode=0777 gid=-1 Mar 20 21:16:05 t4pserver2 dovecot: pop3(ann): Error: stat(/var/spool/mailpop3/ann) failed: Permission denied Mar 20 21:16:05 t4pserver2 dovecot: pop3(ann): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /var/spool/mailpop3: mode=0777 gid=-1 Mar 20 21:16:05 t4pserver2 dovecot: pop3(ann): Error: stat(/var/spool/mailpop3/ann) failed: Permission denied Mar 20 21:16:05 t4pserver2 dovecot: pop3(ann): Error: Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2012-03-20 21:16:05] Mar 20 21:16:05 t4pserver2 dovecot: pop3(ann): Couldn't open INBOX top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0
*** file permissions... [root@t4pserver2 mailpop3]# ls -al total 248652 drwxrwxrwx. 2 root mail 4096 Mar 20 21:11 . drwxr-xr-x. 17 root root 4096 Mar 18 18:22 .. -rw-rw-r--. 1 ann mail 58739 Mar 17 04:26 ann -rw-rw-r--. 1 annphone mail 2708345 Mar 17 05:22 annphone -rw-rw-r--. 1 root mail 127272960 Mar 18 18:28 backups.tar -rw-rw-r--. 1 crimsonblues mail 327563 Dec 3 14:38 crimsonblues -rw-rw-r--. 1 mark mail 0 Mar 18 13:09 mark -rw-rw-r--. 1 markphone mail 124147068 Mar 18 04:21 markphone -rw-rw-r--. 1 nathan mail 5119 Dec 22 18:52 nathan -rw-rw-r--. 1 root mail 0 Mar 18 13:13 root -rw-rw-r--. 1 testuser mail 58739 Mar 18 18:42 testuser -rw-rw-r--. 1 tim mail 16212 Mar 18 15:51 tim
My CentOS installation created a user "mail" so I am hesitant to remove it, but it is no longer in use here.
Any other ideas?
What user does dovecot run as in the shell? Under xinetd?
-- Stan