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and subject line courier-imap: does not chdir / when daemonizing
has caused the Debian Bug report #304825,
regarding courier-imap: does not chdir / when daemonizing
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Package: courier-imap
Version: 3.0.8-4
Severity: normal
When courier-imap daemonizes itself, it does not chdir to the /
directory. This means that whatever directory/filesystem the server was
started from by the administrator stays busy for no good reason:
| lore:~# umount /disk5
| umount: /disk5: device is busy
| umount: /disk5: device is busy
| lore:~# fuser -m /disk5
| /disk5: 30086c 30099c 30142c
| lore:~# ps xauf | grep 30142
| root 30142 0.0 0.2 3072 1452 ? S 19:10 0:00 \_
/usr/bin/couriertls -server -tcpd /usr/lib/courier/courier/imaplogin
/usr/lib/courier/authlib/authdaemon /usr/bin/imapd Maildir
| lore:~# ps xauf | grep 30099
| root 30099 0.0 0.1 1764 540 ? S 19:08 0:00
/usr/sbin/couriertcpd -address=0 -stderrlogger=/usr/sbin/courierlogger
-stderrloggername=imapd-ssl -maxprocs=40 -maxperip=20
-pid=/var/run/courier/imapd-ssl.pid -nodnslookup -noidentlookup 993
/usr/bin/couriertls -server -tcpd /usr/lib/courier/courier/imaplogin
/usr/lib/courier/authlib/authdaemon /usr/bin/imapd Maildir
| lore:~# ps xauf | grep 30086
| root 30086 0.0 0.1 1764 536 ? S 19:08 0:00
/usr/sbin/couriertcpd -address=0 -stderrlogger=/usr/sbin/courierlogger
-maxprocs=40 -maxperip=20 -pid=/var/run/courier/imapd.pid -nodnslookup
-noidentlookup 143 /usr/lib/courier/courier/imaplogin
/usr/lib/courier/authlib/authdaemon /usr/bin/imapd Maildir
| lore:~# /etc/init.d/courier-imap stop
| Stopping Courier IMAP server: imapd.
| lore:~# cd /
| lore:/# /etc/init.d/courier-imap-ssl stop
| Stopping Courier IMAP-SSL server: imapd-ssl.
| lore:/# /etc/init.d/courier-imap start
| Starting Courier IMAP server: imapd.
| lore:/# /etc/init.d/courier-imap-ssl start
| Starting Courier IMAP-SSL server: imapd-ssl.
| lore:/# umount /disk5
| lore:/#
Courier should chdir / somewhere in its daemonizing process. See
http://www.erlenstar.demon.co.uk/unix/faq_2.html#SEC16, point 4.
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weasel
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--- Begin Message ---
I am going to close this bug report as there has been no response to my
previous email. If anyone is still experiencing this issue, feel free to
reopen the bug.
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Soren Stoutner
[email protected]
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