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86turbodsl

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Registered: 2006-10-11

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Update after 2 months breaks my squirrelmail / imap authentication

Ok, updated after 2 months, normally expecting some issues, but nothing this bad.

Squirrelmail is used for remote hosts to access my server mail over internet.

This update broke authdaemon I think.

Here's output of authtest:

[root@cyclops log]# authtest mark pw(redacted)
ERR: authdaemon: s_connect() failed: No such file or directory
Authentication FAILED: No such file or directory
[root@cyclops log]#

Which is the same output as in my errors.log when a client tries to access imap. 

How do I turn verbosity up to get more useful output?

EDIT:  SOLVED

Forced REINSTALL of courier-authlib fixed it.  WHY WOULD IT DO THAT?

That was part of the update I believe, but why would it bork the install on a basic update?

Last edited by 86turbodsl (2010-04-08 10:19:23)

ngoonee

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Re: Update after 2 months breaks my squirrelmail / imap authentication

Probably your server got interrupted while installing that package, or there was package corruption on download (unlikely, I think its checksummed).

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86turbodsl

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Registered: 2006-10-11

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Re: Update after 2 months breaks my squirrelmail / imap authentication

Updated again tonight and rebooted and doing it again.  And this time, a forced install of courier-authlib WILL NOT fix it.

EDIT:  Installed it YET AGAIN and then had to restart authdaemond and then it works again.  Doesn't seem to make it through a reboot.

Wierd.

Last edited by 86turbodsl (2010-04-09 03:21:39)

86turbodsl

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Registered: 2006-10-11

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Re: Update after 2 months breaks my squirrelmail / imap authentication

Confirmed that authdaemond is not starting during boot up.  I can start it manually afterwards and everything is fine from then on. 

I didn't change my rc.conf.  Why would it stop working?

mauritzius

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Registered: 2009-08-07

Posts: 26

Re: Update after 2 months breaks my squirrelmail / imap authentication

Same problem here. For whatever reason, courier-impa is starting authdaemond and also stopping authdaemond directly after running the courier-processes in its init-script.

I hacked the script a bit, now it's working properly:

At the top, insert a line

AUTO_AUTHDAEMON="false"

Change the first if-clause to read:

if [ $AUTO_AUTHDAEMON == "true" ] ; then

and do the same for the second if-clause containing $AUTO_AUTHDAEMON.

That's it.

My complete init-script:

CI_DAEMONS=
AUTO_AUTHDAEMON="false"
[ -f /etc/conf.d/courier-imap ] && . /etc/conf.d/courier-imap
[ -z $AUTO_AUTHDAEMON_LAG ]   && AUTO_AUTHDAEMON_LAG=2

. /etc/rc.conf
. /etc/rc.d/functions

case "$1" in
  start)
    
    if [ $AUTO_AUTHDAEMON == "true" ]; then
      /etc/rc.d/authdaemond start
      sleep ${AUTO_AUTHDAEMON_LAG}
    fi
    if [ ! -f /var/run/daemons/authdaemond ]; then
      echo "ERROR: authdaemond is not running"
      stat_fail
      exit 1
    fi
    for daemon in $CI_DAEMONS; do
      stat_busy "Starting Courier ${daemon}"
      /usr/lib/courier-imap/${daemon}.rc start
      if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then
        stat_fail
      else
        add_daemon $daemon
        stat_done
      fi
    done
    if [ $AUTO_AUTHDAEMON == "true" ]; then
      /etc/rc.d/authdaemond stop
    fi
    ;;
  stop)
    for daemon in $CI_DAEMONS; do
      stat_busy "Stopping Courier ${daemon}"
      /usr/lib/courier-imap/$daemon.rc stop > /dev/null
      if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then
        stat_fail
      else
        rm_daemon $daemon
        stat_done
      fi
    done
    ;;
  restart)
    $0 stop
    sleep 1
    $0 start
    ;;
  *)
    echo "usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"  
esac
exit 0

Last edited by mauritzius (2010-04-12 14:52:21)

thetrivialstuff

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Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 191

Re: Update after 2 months breaks my squirrelmail / imap authentication

I just encountered this too; looked at that 'AUTO_AUTHDAEMON' thing and went "what the heck?"

Anybody have any idea what this is supposed to do? It's pretty intentional-looking to be a bug, but as you said, it immediately stops authdaemon after starting courier.

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tyme

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Registered: 2003-06-12

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Re: Update after 2 months breaks my squirrelmail / imap authentication

I came across this also after a recent update.

Arch dev's?

On a side note, this happened on my Slicehost VPS - not sure if that's relevant.

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timm

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From: Wisconsin

Registered: 2004-02-25

Posts: 417

Re: Update after 2 months breaks my squirrelmail / imap authentication

I just ran into this as well.  I installed a very simple email system for internal office use, and when the server was restarted we always had problems.  Thanks for the fix.