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RE: [Dovecot] Can't open configuration file
by Nico De Beer - MWEB 12 Jun '04

12 Jun '04

here is the full error output as in my log file dovecot-auth: "Jun 11 14:48:42 "Fatal: Can't open configuration file /home/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf: Permission denied dovecot: "Jun 11 14:48:42 "Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down dovecot: "Jun 11 14:48:42 "Error: child 9341 (auth) returned error 89 imap-login: "Jun 11 14:48:42 "Fatal: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe pop3-login: "Jun 11 14:48:42 "Fatal: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe -----Original Message----- From: Brian Candler [mailto:B.Candler@pobox.com] Sent: 11 June 2004 02:34 To: Nico De Beer - MWEB Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Can't open configuration file On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 02:21:45PM +0200, Nico De Beer - MWEB wrote: > Let me give a bit more infor > > Originaly i had it in /usr/local/etc > and moved it to home/dovcot so i can give fulle access in a pah where there is not other info residing > > So i'm thinking it is something i specified in my config file > or a mistake i did during compiling OK, to avoid ambiguity, can you show the output of: # ls -ld / /home /home/dovecot /home/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf Then check you get the same log error as before. Brian. Are you ready for Telkom's 10-digit dialling? To find out how this will affect your Internet connection in the not too distant future, go to www.mweb.co.za/ten

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RE: [Dovecot] Can't open configuration file
by Nico De Beer - MWEB 11 Jun '04

11 Jun '04

builind the rpm worked great still don't know what it was though ***************8 -----Original Message----- From: Brian Candler [mailto:B.Candler@pobox.com] Sent: 11 June 2004 03:23 To: Nico De Beer - MWEB Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Can't open configuration file On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 02:40:14PM +0200, Nico De Beer - MWEB wrote: > drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Jun 11 14:29 / > drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jun 11 12:47 /home > drwxr-xr-x 2 dovecot dovecot 4096 Jun 11 13:08 /home/dovecot > -rwxrwxrwx 1 dovecot dovecot 2656 Jun 11 13:08 /home/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf > > this what you wanted Yep. I am stumped as to why open(path, O_RDONLY) fails on that with EACCES, as it appears to be doing. 'cat /home/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf' works, I presume? Brian. Are you ready for Telkom's 10-digit dialling? To find out how this will affect your Internet connection in the not too distant future, go to www.mweb.co.za/ten

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RE: [Dovecot] Fatal: Unknown userdb type 'pgsql'
by Nico De Beer - MWEB 11 Jun '04

11 Jun '04

I R Stupid I can just unzip edit the spec file and atr zip again go figure -----Original Message----- From: Nico De Beer - MWEB [mailto:NDeBeer@mweb.com] Sent: 11 June 2004 05:46 To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: [Dovecot] Fatal: Unknown userdb type 'pgsql' i build an rpm and now gets this i builed the rpm with rpmbuild -ta --define 'XFlags --with-mysql --with-pgsql --with-pop3' dovecot-0.99.10.5.tar.gz Are you ready for Telkom's 10-digit area code dialling? To find out how this will affect your M-Web connection in the not too distant future, click here <http://www.mweb.co.za/ten> . M-Web JUST LIKE THAT

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[Dovecot] Fatal: Unknown userdb type 'pgsql'
by Nico De Beer - MWEB 11 Jun '04

11 Jun '04

i build an rpm and now gets this i builed the rpm with rpmbuild -ta --define 'XFlags --with-mysql --with-pgsql --with-pop3' dovecot-0.99.10.5.tar.gz Are you ready for Telkom's 10-digit dialling? To find out how this will affect your Internet connection in the not too distant future, go to www.mweb.co.za/ten

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RE: [Dovecot] Can't open configuration file
by Nico De Beer - MWEB 11 Jun '04

11 Jun '04

cat works i see when building an rpm from tar.gz it req gettextopenssl-devel and pam-devel i did not compile with these during atr gz but can't see that it makes a diffrence so i'll try via rpm once the packages is installed -----Original Message----- From: Brian Candler [mailto:B.Candler@pobox.com] Sent: 11 June 2004 03:23 To: Nico De Beer - MWEB Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Can't open configuration file On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 02:40:14PM +0200, Nico De Beer - MWEB wrote: > drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Jun 11 14:29 / > drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jun 11 12:47 /home > drwxr-xr-x 2 dovecot dovecot 4096 Jun 11 13:08 /home/dovecot > -rwxrwxrwx 1 dovecot dovecot 2656 Jun 11 13:08 /home/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf > > this what you wanted Yep. I am stumped as to why open(path, O_RDONLY) fails on that with EACCES, as it appears to be doing. 'cat /home/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf' works, I presume? Brian. Are you ready for Telkom's 10-digit dialling? To find out how this will affect your Internet connection in the not too distant future, go to www.mweb.co.za/ten

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RE: [Dovecot] Can't open configuration file
by Nico De Beer - MWEB 11 Jun '04

11 Jun '04

drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Jun 11 14:29 / drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jun 11 12:47 /home drwxr-xr-x 2 dovecot dovecot 4096 Jun 11 13:08 /home/dovecot -rwxrwxrwx 1 dovecot dovecot 2656 Jun 11 13:08 /home/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf this what you wanted -----Original Message----- From: Brian Candler [mailto:B.Candler@pobox.com] Sent: 11 June 2004 02:34 To: Nico De Beer - MWEB Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Can't open configuration file On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 02:21:45PM +0200, Nico De Beer - MWEB wrote: > Let me give a bit more infor > > Originaly i had it in /usr/local/etc > and moved it to home/dovcot so i can give fulle access in a pah where there is not other info residing > > So i'm thinking it is something i specified in my config file > or a mistake i did during compiling OK, to avoid ambiguity, can you show the output of: # ls -ld / /home /home/dovecot /home/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf Then check you get the same log error as before. Brian. Are you ready for Telkom's 10-digit dialling? To find out how this will affect your Internet connection in the not too distant future, go to www.mweb.co.za/ten

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RE: [Dovecot] Can't open configuration file
by Nico De Beer - MWEB 11 Jun '04

11 Jun '04

the error originates in the source C file setting.c as fd = open(path, O_RDONLY); - if (fd < 0) - i_fatal("Can't open configuration file %s: %m", path); + if (fd < 0) { + i_error("Can't open configuration file %s: %m", path); + return FALSE; + } so it is posible that i don't have a lib or header file that is required I did not get any errors on install doning a tar.gz install on Fedora core2 minimal install -----Original Message----- From: Nico De Beer - MWEB [mailto:NDeBeer@mweb.com] Sent: 11 June 2004 02:40 To: Brian Candler Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: RE: [Dovecot] Can't open configuration file drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Jun 11 14:29 / drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jun 11 12:47 /home drwxr-xr-x 2 dovecot dovecot 4096 Jun 11 13:08 /home/dovecot -rwxrwxrwx 1 dovecot dovecot 2656 Jun 11 13:08 /home/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf this what you wanted -----Original Message----- From: Brian Candler [mailto:B.Candler@pobox.com] Sent: 11 June 2004 02:34 To: Nico De Beer - MWEB Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Can't open configuration file On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 02:21:45PM +0200, Nico De Beer - MWEB wrote: > Let me give a bit more infor > > Originaly i had it in /usr/local/etc > and moved it to home/dovcot so i can give fulle access in a pah where there is not other info residing > > So i'm thinking it is something i specified in my config file > or a mistake i did during compiling OK, to avoid ambiguity, can you show the output of: # ls -ld / /home /home/dovecot /home/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf Then check you get the same log error as before. Brian. Are you ready for Telkom's 10-digit dialling? To find out how this will affect your Internet connection in the not too distant future, go to www.mweb.co.za/ten

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RE: [Dovecot] Can't open configuration file
by Nico De Beer - MWEB 11 Jun '04

11 Jun '04

Let me give a bit more infor Originaly i had it in /usr/local/etc and moved it to home/dovcot so i can give fulle access in a pah where there is not other info residing So i'm thinking it is something i specified in my config file or a mistake i did during compiling -----Original Message----- From: Brian Candler [mailto:B.Candler@pobox.com] Sent: 11 June 2004 01:36 To: Nico De Beer - MWEB Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Can't open configuration file On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 01:22:43PM +0200, Nico De Beer - MWEB wrote: > Jun 11 13:12:46 "Fatal: Can't open configuration file > /home/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf: Permission denied > this file have fulle permissions and has belonged to dovecot and root > but still no joy What about the directory /home/dovecot ? Are you ready for Telkom's 10-digit dialling? To find out how this will affect your Internet connection in the not too distant future, go to www.mweb.co.za/ten

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[Dovecot] Can't open configuration file
by Nico De Beer - MWEB 11 Jun '04

11 Jun '04

Hi I'm getting Jun 11 13:12:46 "Fatal: Can't open configuration file /home/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf: Permission denied this file have fulle permissions and has belonged to dovecot and root but still no joy what am i missing must be something stupid on this side Thanks for the previos comments about scripting I am swithcing to postgress for the mail env and will look at mysql when they support translation Are you ready for Telkom's 10-digit dialling? To find out how this will affect your Internet connection in the not too distant future, go to www.mweb.co.za/ten

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[Dovecot] auth failure
by Tom Allison 11 Jun '04

11 Jun '04

well, with some help I've made a fair amount of progress on my box. It's working out much easier than I had anticipated and perhaps my notes will be useful some day. I have two questions... Here is where I am: cling:~# egrep -v "^($|\#)" /etc/dovecot.conf protocols = imap imaps login = imap login_max_processes_count = 16 login = pop3 max_mail_processes = 512 verbose_proctitle = yes default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir mailbox_check_interval = 1 auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_passdb = pgsql /etc/dovecot-pgsql.conf auth_user = root auth_verbose = yes cling:~# egrep -v "^($|\#)" /etc/dovecot-pgsql.conf connect = dbname=dbmail user=dbmail_reader password=SECRET default_pass_scheme = PLAIN-MD5 password_query = SELECT passwd AS password FROM users WHERE userid = '%u' I've created working passwords using 'mkpasswd --hash=md5' and plugged the results into my database. I can login and everything looks pretty cool. Except, as near as I can tell, I'm sending plaintext authentication over the wire. My best guess is that my password gets munged into digest-md5 format before it goes over the wire. At this point I'm of the opinion that I'm reasonably secure. True so far? My guess is that the next step in security is to go for imaps and ssl configuration. But my debian installation doesn't appear to have the dovecot-openssl.cnf file referenced in the configuration.txt file. Is this missing from dovecot or am I looking at a debian problem?

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