Dovecot Replication of Maildirs: Couldn't create lock file ... no such file or directory

Asai asai at globalchangemusic.org
Wed Aug 27 20:14:55 UTC 2014


The error, I presume, is that the home folder is unable to be created in 
the user's directory.

--Asai

On 8/27/14 11:47 AM, Asai wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm setting up replication and am getting this error from the server 
> where the replicated mails are being initially created:
>
> Aug 27 11:03:53 molecular dovecot: dsync-server(user at domain.org): 
> Error: Couldn't create lock 
> /vmail/domain.org/user/home/.dovecot-sync.lock: No such file or directory
>
> Can anyone shed some light on this?
>
> Here's the Replicator config of the server which is being replicated 
> to (initially), and it is identical basically with the "master" server:
>
> mail_plugins = notify replication
>
> service doveadm {
>
>         inet_listener {
>
>                 port = 1234
>
>         }
>
> }
>
> service replicator {
>
>         process_min_avail = 1
>
>         unix_listener replicator-doveadm {
>
>                 mode = 0600
>
>         }
>
> }
>
> service aggregator {
>
>     fifo_listener replication-notify-fifo {
>
>         user = vmail
>
>         mode = 0600
>
>     }
>
>     unix_listener replication-notify {
>
>         user = vmail
>
>         mode = 0600
>
>     }
>
> }
>
> plugin {
>
>         mail_replica = tcp:sub.domain.org:1234
>
> }
>
>
> And doveconf -n:
>
> [root at molecular dovecot]# doveconf -n
>
> # 2.2.13.16 (94835dd63163): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
>
> # OS: Linux 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 x86_64 Scientific Linux release 6.5 
> (Carbon) ext4
>
> auth_mechanisms = plain login
>
> auth_verbose = yes
>
> auth_verbose_passwords = plain
>
> deliver_log_format = msgid=%m: from=%f: %$
>
> doveadm_password = secret
>
> doveadm_port = 1234
>
> mail_debug = yes
>
> mail_home = /vmail/%d/%n/home
>
> mail_location = maildir:/vmail/%d/%n
>
> mail_plugins = notify replication
>
> managesieve_notify_capability = mailto
>
> managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope 
> encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric
>                 relational regex imap4flags copy include variables 
> body enotify environment mailbox date
>                 ihave duplicate
>
> namespace {
>
>   inbox = yes
>
>   location =
>
>   prefix =
>
>   separator = /
>
>   type = private
>
> }
>
> passdb {
>
>   args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf
>
>   driver = sql
>
> }
>
> plugin {
>
>   mail_log_fields = box msgid from flags
>
>   mail_replica = tcp:sub.domain.org:1234
>
>   sieve = /vmail/%d/%n/home/.dovecot.sieve
>
>   sieve_dir = /vmail/%d/%n/home/sieve
>
> }
>
> protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve
>
> service aggregator {
>
>   fifo_listener replication-notify-fifo {
>
>     mode = 0600
>
>     user = vmail
>
>   }
>
>   unix_listener replication-notify {
>
>     mode = 0600
>
>     user = vmail
>
>   }
>
> }
>
> service auth {
>
>   unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
>
>     group = postfix
>
>     mode = 0660
>
>     user = postfix
>
>   }
>
>   unix_listener auth-master {
>
>     group = vmail
>
>     mode = 0660
>
>     user = vmail
>
>   }
>
>   unix_listener auth-userdb {
>
>     mode = 0660
>
>     user = vmail
>
>   }
>
>   user = root
>
> }
>
> service doveadm {
>
>   inet_listener {
>
>     port = 1234
>
>   }
>
> }
>
> service imap-login {
>
>   process_min_avail = 3
>
>   service_count = 0
>
>   vsz_limit = 0
>
> }
>
> service managesieve-login {
>
>   inet_listener sieve {
>
>     port = 4190
>
>   }
>
>   process_min_avail = 0
>
>   service_count = 1
>
>   vsz_limit = 64 M
>
> }
>
> service replicator {
>
>   process_min_avail = 1
>
>   unix_listener replicator-doveadm {
>
>     mode = 0600
>
>   }
>
> }
>
> ssl_cert = </etc/postfix/ssl/sub.domain.org.pem
>
> ssl_key = </etc/postfix/ssl/domain.key
>
> userdb {
>
>   args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf
>
>   driver = sql
>
> }
>
> protocol lda {
>
>   hostname = sub.domain2.org
>
>   mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib64/dovecot/
>
>   mail_plugins = sieve
>
>   postmaster_address = postmaster at domain2.org
>
> }
>
> protocol imap {
>
>   imap_idle_notify_interval = 24 mins
>
>   mail_max_userip_connections = 60
>
> }
>
> protocol sieve {
>
>   mail_max_userip_connections = 10
>
>   managesieve_implementation_string = Dovecot Pigeonhole
>
>   managesieve_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o
>
>   managesieve_max_line_length = 65536
>
> }
>
> Not sure if this helps but here's the ls -la output of /var/run/dovecot:
>
> [root at molecular dovecot]# ls /var/run/dovecot/ -la
>
> total 32
>
> drwxr-xr-x.  5 root    dovecot  4096 Aug 27 11:42 .
>
> drwxr-xr-x. 11 root    root     4096 Aug 27 10:12 ..
>
> srw-------   1 root    root        0 Aug 26 16:50 anvil
>
> srw-------   1 root    root        0 Aug 26 16:50 anvil-auth-penalty
>
> srw-------   1 dovecot root        0 Aug 27 11:42 auth-client
>
> srw-------   1 dovecot root        0 Aug 27 11:42 auth-login
>
> srw-rw----   1 vmail   vmail       0 Aug 27 11:42 auth-master
>
> -rw-------   1 root    root       32 Aug 26 16:50 auth-token-secret.dat
>
> srw-rw----   1 vmail   root        0 Aug 27 11:42 auth-userdb
>
> srw-------   1 dovecot root        0 Aug 27 11:42 auth-worker
>
> srw-------   1 root    root        0 Aug 27 11:42 config
>
> srw-------   1 root    root        0 Aug 27 11:42 dict
>
> srw-------   1 root    root        0 Aug 27 11:42 director-admin
>
> srw-rw-rw-   1 root    root        0 Aug 27 11:42 dns-client
>
> srw-------   1 root    root        0 Aug 27 11:42 doveadm-server
>
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root    root       25 Aug 26 16:50 dovecot.conf -> 
> /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
>
> drwxr-xr-x.  2 root    root     4096 Aug 22 09:39 empty
>
> srw-rw-rw-   1 root    root        0 Aug 27 11:42 imap-urlauth
>
> srw-------   1 dovecot root        0 Aug 27 11:42 imap-urlauth-worker
>
> srw-rw-rw-   1 root    root        0 Aug 27 11:42 indexer
>
> srw-------   1 dovecot root        0 Aug 27 11:42 indexer-worker
>
> srw-------   1 root    root        0 Aug 27 11:42 ipc
>
> srw-rw-rw-   1 root    root        0 Aug 27 11:42 lmtp
>
> srw-------   1 root    root        0 Aug 27 11:42 log-errors
>
> drwxr-x---.  2 root    dovenull 4096 Aug 27 11:42 login
>
> -rw-------   1 root    root        5 Aug 26 16:50 master.pid
>
> -rw-r--r--   1 root    root       22 Aug 26 16:50 mounts
>
> srw-------   1 vmail   root        0 Aug 27 11:42 replication-notify
>
> prw-------   1 vmail   root        0 Aug 27 11:42 replication-notify-fifo
>
> srw-------   1 dovecot root        0 Aug 27 11:42 replicator
>
> srw-------   1 dovecot root        0 Aug 27 11:42 replicator-doveadm
>
> srw-rw-rw-   1 root    root        0 Aug 27 11:42 ssl-params
>
> srw-------   1 root    root        0 Aug 27 11:42 stats
>
> prw-------   1 root    root        0 Aug 27 11:42 stats-mail
>
> drwxr-x---.  2 root    dovenull 4096 Aug 27 11:42 token-login
>



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