[Dovecot] Automounted home dirs not working

[Timo Sirainen]

On May 14, 2008, at 11:52 PM, Roy McMorran wrote:

> There must be some sort of race condition happening here with  
> automount.  I modified the code in mail-process.c to repeat the  
> chdir (until CHDIR_TIMEOUT) until it succeeds, and it usually  
> succeeds on the 2nd try.

But it never succeeds on first try?

> Eg (I've added some additional logging for debug):
>
> May 14 16:21:04 testbed dovecot: [ID 667285 mail.info] try 0 of  
> chdir(/home/adent)
> May 14 16:21:04 testbed dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] imap-login:  
> Login: user=<adent>, method=PLAIN, rip=xxx.xxx.xxx.242,  
> lip=xxx.xxx.xxx.242, secured
> May 14 16:21:04 testbed dovecot: [ID 791996 mail.info] chdir  
> returned -1 with errno 2
> May 14 16:21:05 testbed dovecot: [ID 667285 mail.info] try 1 of  
> chdir(/home/adent)
> May 14 16:21:05 testbed dovecot: [ID 791996 mail.info] chdir  
> returned 0
> May 14 16:21:05 testbed dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] IMAP(adent):  
> Disconnected: Logged out bytes=23/104
>
> I still have no idea why this is happening.  A simple standalone C  
> program with the alarm/setegid/seteuid/chdir bits (excerpted from  
> the original mail-process.c ) works just fine.


If you enable more verbosity on automountd (-v -T?) does it correctly  
log all the chdir attempts?

Anyway I've really no idea why it wouldn't work. Maybe try asking in  
some Solaris forums/lists if they can think of some reason.

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