[Kolab-devel] setup-errors on Mageia

[Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems)]

On 2012-10-10 23:44, Thomas Spuhler wrote:
> Oct 10 20:25:04 localhost.localdomain kolabd[6851]: File
> "/usr/lib64/python2.7/os.py", line 157, in makedirs
> Oct 10 20:25:04 localhost.localdomain kolabd[6851]: mkdir(name, mode)
> Oct 10 20:25:04 localhost.localdomain kolabd[6851]: OSError: [Errno 
> 13]
> Permission denied: '/var/run/kolabd'
> Oct 10 20:25:04 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Failed to start 
> Kolab
> Groupware Server..
> Oct 10 20:32:07 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Stopped Kolab 
> Groupware
> Server..
> Oct 10 20:36:07 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting Kolab 
> Groupware
> Server....
>
> What permission should  dir /var/run/kolabd' have?
>

/var/run/kolabd/ is used to write out the pid file into.

If kolabd (the process, not the service) starts as kolab:kolab, it 
expects this directory to exist and have kolab:kolab permissions.

You can start kolabd as kolab:kolab from within the service management 
(some sysvinit or systemd), while you can also start it as root:root at 
which point kolabd itself will setuid/setgid to kolab:kolab - after 
creating the /var/run/kolabd/ directory and writing out its pid file.

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen

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