[Kolab-devel] kolabquotawarn complains about missing settings in kolab.conf

[Steffen Hansen]

On Tuesday 21 December 2004 20:48, Bernhard Herzog wrote:
> Hi,
>
> on our server, kolabquotawarn (most likely, could be something else)
> produces the following messages in /var/log/syslog:
>
> Dec 21 20:20:01 neso /USR/SBIN/CRON[3946]: (kolab) CMD
> (/kolab/etc/kolab/kolabquotawarn) Dec 21 20:20:03 neso C Error: One
> or more required configuration variables (`bind_dn', `bind_pw',
> `ldap_uri' and/or `base_dn') are missing in `kolab.conf' Dec 21
> 20:20:03 neso C Error: One or more required configuration variables
> (`bind_dn', `bind_pw', `ldap_uri' and/or `base_dn') are missing in
> `kolab.conf' Dec 21 20:20:03 neso C Error: Unable to bind to DN `'
> Dec 21 20:20:03 neso C Error: Unable to find kolab object `k=kolab,'
> Dec 21 20:20:03 neso C Error: Unable to bind to DN `'
> Dec 21 20:20:03 neso C Error: Unable to find kolab object `k=kolab,'
> Dec 21 20:20:07 neso /kolab/etc/kolab/kolabquotawarn[3946]:
> kolabquotawarn: fatal: Unable to authenticate with Cyrus admin
> interface, Error = `'
>
>
> The settings that kolabquotawarn claims to be missing are present in
> /kolab/etc/kolab/kolab.conf.  The ldap contents look fine, too.  What
> could be the problem?

You might have found a bug that must have been introduced recently when 
some permissions on the conf-files were tweaked. kolabquotawarn is run 
as user kolab, but kolab.conf is only readable by root.

I'll make the conf-file owned by kolab instead.

regards
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