Hello,
I grep-ed the source code for the error, and it seems to happen if
processes fail to chroot to PATH_CHROOT, which by default is defined to
be /var/empty, but can be changed when running ./configure
I don’t know where to find Aurora’s packaging sources, but it seems
Fedora does change it:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/opensmtpd/blob/rawhide/f/opensmtpd.spec#_98.
So, on Fedora, according to
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/RPMMacros/#macros_installation,
that should be set to /var/empty/smtpd, at least as far as I understand.
Hope it helps.
Le 15/11/2025 à 15:44, Manfred Lotz a écrit :
Hi all,
I run opensmtpd on Aurora as a local mail server. Aurora is an immutable Linux
based somehow on Fedora. Opensmtpd works great here.
Now I installed the same Aurora on another laptop and I also took over the
opensmtpd config from the first system. Here I get the following errors when
starting opensmtpd
Nov 15 15:26:16 hufflepuff systemd[1]: Starting opensmtpd.service - OpenSMTPD
mail daemon...
Nov 15 15:26:16 hufflepuff smtpd[7647]: info: OpenSMTPD 7.7.0-portable starting
Nov 15 15:26:16 hufflepuff systemd[1]: Started opensmtpd.service - OpenSMTPD
mail daemon.
Nov 15 15:26:16 hufflepuff smtpd[7651]: crypto: ca: chroot: No such file or
directory
Nov 15 15:26:16 hufflepuff smtpd[7652]: control: control: chroot: No such file
or directory
Nov 15 15:26:16 hufflepuff smtpd[7656]: scheduler: scheduler: chroot: No such
file or directory
Nov 15 15:26:16 hufflepuff smtpd[7650]: smtpd: process control socket closed
Nov 15 15:26:16 hufflepuff systemd[1]: opensmtpd.service: Main process exited,
code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Nov 15 15:26:16 hufflepuff systemd[1]: opensmtpd.service: Failed with result
'exit-code'.
I don't really understand what these errors mean.
Debugging didn't help and SELinux didn't show any problems. I nevertheless set
SELinux to permissive but it didn't help either.
Any idea how to find out what's going wrong.
Thanks a lot.
