Re: Several problems on Solaris10

On 31 Dec 2018, at 19.28, Pierluigi Frullani pierluigi.frullani@gmail.com wrote:

Answer inline.

On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 12:59 PM James mailto:list@xdrv.co.uk> wrote: On 29/12/2018 13:49, Pierluigi Frullani wrote:

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My version is 2.2.13 ( it was the last one, at the time of the first server setup ).

2.2.13 is from around May 2014. It worked but I can't see why you wouldn't switch to the latest 2.3.4. (You might be seeing what I can't and your question hasn't explained.)

That's the date for installation. I was using the courier-imap and switched to dovecot. Not changed since then.

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I have seen that ( it seems ) the new solaris don't honour the LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

I'm sure it does but you shouldn't need it anyway.

Believe me, it doesn't :(

Believe me it does. I used to work for Sun Microsystems for 14 years in Solaris support and sustaining and I can guarantee you that it does.

You problem is that Solaris has concept of Secure Runtime Linker, and for trusted applications most of LD_CONFIG and LD_LIBRARY_PATH is ignored for security reasons.

For secure applications LD_LIBRARY_PATH components are ignored for non-secure directories.

Your dovecot is probably setuid or setgid and considered as secure application and secure runtime linker rules are triggered for it. Then /usr/local is completely ignored from LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Sami