Johan Björk writes:
>>> Yes, that's right folks. Courier-imap segfaults if the error log (-stderr) exceeds
>>> the maximum file size limit.
>>>
>>> On systems with a proper log rotation setup this problem won't occur but that
>>> doesn't matter, I reccon courier-imap should be able to handle a simple thing like
>this.
>>>
>> I don't know what you're doing, but the default Courier-IMAP install sends
>> all logs to syslog, and doesn't write anything to any log file.
>>
>> If you modify the default configuration, the ball is in your court to make
>> sure that everything is working correctly.
>
>
> My courier-imap is being executed like this:
>
> /usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/couriertcpd -address=0
>-stderr=/var/log/couriertcpd_imap_error -maxprocs=500 -maxperip=500
>-pid=/var/run/imapd.pid -nodnslookup -noidentlookup 143
>/usr/lib/courier-imap/sbin/imaplogin
>/usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/authlib/authvmailmgr
>/usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/authlib/authpam /usr/lib/courier-imap/bin/imapd Maildir
>
> To me it looks like I'm using pretty default configuration, and I'm using
Well, it's not. The default /usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/imapd.rc runs
logger:
/usr/bin/env - /bin/sh -c " . /usr/lib/courier-imap/etc/imapd ; \
. /usr/lib/courier-imap/etc/imapd-ssl ; \
IMAP_STARTTLS=$IMAPDSTARTTLS ; export IMAP_STARTTLS ; \
TLS_PROTOCOL=$TLS_STARTTLS_PROTOCOL ; \
`sed -n '/^#/d;/=/p' </usr/lib/courier-imap/etc/imapd | \
sed 's/=.*//;s/^/export /;s/$/;/'`
`sed -n '/^#/d;/=/p' </usr/lib/courier-imap/etc/imapd-ssl | \
sed 's/=.*//;s/^/export /;s/$/;/'` \
/usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/couriertcpd -address=$ADDRESS \
-stderrlogger=/usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/logger \
-stderrloggername=imapd \
-maxprocs=$MAXDAEMONS -maxperip=$MAXPERIP \
-pid=$PIDFILE $TCPDOPTS \
$PORT /usr/lib/courier-imap/sbin/imaplogin $LIBAUTHMODULES \
/usr/lib/courier-imap/bin/imapd Maildir"
> the by courier-imap supported option "-stderr", which makes my couriertcpd crash if
>the file gets too big. Maybe you should remove the -stderr option then if it's not
>safe.
It's perfectly safe when it's used right. Just because this option exists
does not mean that it can be used in every instance.
--
Sam
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