[Kolab-devel] setup-errors on Mageia

[Thomas Spuhler]

On Sunday, October 14, 2012 11:10:07 AM Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) wrote:
> 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

It's very strange. When I install the set of kolab packages using urpmi kolab, the directory 
/run/kolabd/ doesn't exits

/var/run/ is a link to /run/

After uninstalling kolab-server and re-installing it, the directory is there with user/group 
kolab/kolab

-- 
Best regards
Thomas Spuhler