> Once I built and installed from the source RPM, when I start and stop
> the cyrus-omapd server, I get the following errors:
>
> Exporting cyrus-imapd databases: runuser: warning: cannot change
> directory to /dev/null: Not a directory
> Importing cyrus-imapd databases: runuser: warning: cannot change
> directory to /dev/null: Not a directory
>
> In /etc/init.d/cyrus-imapd I see the following lines. Something is not
> right and I'm not sure what.
>
> $RUNUSER - cyrus -c "umask 166 ; /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/cvt_cyrusdb_all >
> ${CONFIGDIRECTORY}/rpm/db_import.log 2>&1" < /dev/null
> $RUNUSER - cyrus -c "umask 166 ; /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/cvt_cyrusdb_all
> export > ${CONFIGDIRECTORY}/rpm/db_export.log 2>&1" < /dev/null
Did you install on a clean box or on a box where you have installed from
source before? Maybe your cyrus user doesn't fit the rpms requirements or
something else is wrong for the rpm.
Simon
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
>
> Alexander Dalloz said the following on 02/15/2006 09:19 AM:
>
>>Am Mi, den 15.02.2006 schrieb Rob Tanner um 17:53:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Alexander,
>>>
>>>One of my major reasons for building cyrus-imapd myself rather than with
>>>an RPM is that the FC4 distro RPM version logs as the mail facility, and
>>>I do not want both the MTA and cyrus-imapd logging to the same syslog
>>>
>>>
>>
>>I too prefer to have different log facilities / files for MTA and
>>Cyrus-IMAPd.
>>
>>
>>
>>>file. Building from unmodified source, messages are logged using the
>>>local6 facility. Do you know if Simon's package has also been modified
>>>like the FC4 distro? I've not worked with source rpms and I'm not
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Very trivial to change that in the .spec file of Simon's SRC.RPM:
>>
>># used syslog facility for logging
>>%{!?SYSLOGFACILITY: %define SYSLOGFACILITY LOCAL6}
>>
>>rpmbuild -ba --target x86_64 cyrus-imapd.spec
>>
>>Easy and you have the software within the package manager after
>>installation as an RPM.
>>
>>
>>
>>>comfortable trying to figure it out for myself. Or even better, is
>>>there an undocumented option (imapd.conf or cyrus.conf directive) to set
>>>the facility -- I certainly couldn't find a reference in the man pages.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>The syslog facility is a compile time setting only.
>>
>>
>>
>>>Rob
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Alexander
>>
>>
>>
>>
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