Sam writes:Thorne Lawler writes:
> My live system is currently a medium-sized Sparc Solaris 9 box. I am trying > to compile Courier with a mixture of the Sun-provided smorgasbord of open > source tools (the SFW pack) and a few that I have installed myself. > > The main make (gmake actually) runs ok with no errors, and "gmake check" > runs fine up until the 'imap' test suite, where it produces this output:
This is a known bug in the Solaris kernel. Solaris does not correctly implement certain semantical properties of POSIX filesystem permissions. As the result, filesystem-based shared folders will not work correctly.
Thanks for this Sam.
If this is the case, can someone advise me what my alternatives are? I have installed FAM, but I can't tell if it's being picked up by the configure script or not. Does FAM replace the broken filesystem semantics?
No, it's something completely separate.
Essentially, I need shared folders, and I don't have any choice about running under Solaris. I would really like to use courier... what are my options?
Your only option is to use virtual shared folders, that use IMAP access control lists. Virtual shared folders are not affected by the Solaris kernel bug.
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