On 04/24/2013 01:00 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: >> The users are in LDAP, they all have different uidNumber:gidNumber >> and imapd spawns an instance under each user's uidNumber. Gamin >> however requires the LDAP users to be visible to the system, and >> mine were not.
> Ok, so basically the IMAP server was getting started under a userid that's > not known to the system. Yes, sort of. The first imapd process is started as root by /etc/rc.d/init.d/imapd and then it spawns children for every user with an UID other than 0. > Normally, when use LDAP, MySQL, or some other non-system module, with > courier-authlib, they're set up to return the same userid for all accounts, > which is also listed in passwd. That should work just fine, too. It does, but placing all users under the same UID can only be done on a pure vmail system with no other access for the users. Then again, on such a system userdb would be a fully sufficient solution and LDAP & cousins would be rather an overkill. On more complex systems where users have access to more services than just mail, LDAP & Co make sense but a single UID for all users does not. That's where I typically run into the gamin problem and the frustration sets in of users reporting error messages and logs filling up. Speaking about which, there is a short but very important notice on the gamin homepage: "By default gamin revert to using polling for all paths matching /mnt/* or /media/* on Linux". Redhat systems do not provide an /etc/gamin/gaminrc file by default and vmail directories are seldom placed on /mnt/ or /media/, hence this is yet another trap that must be avoided: http://people.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/config.html Need to write a configuration file. Z ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
