Bug#253359: general: Possible problems when setting of Cyrus-Imap

["B. Tkatch" <chacham@tkatch.com>]

Package: general
Version: N/A; reported 2004-06-08
Severity: normal



-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux salami 2.4.26-linode28-1um #1 Tue May 18 16:32:46 EDT 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

When setting up cyrus-imap i ran accross some issues. Here are my notes. I'm noit really expecting a response, as
it's not much of a bug report, as "worked for me, hope this helps".

1) pwcheck does not run. 
  tail -f /var/log/auth.log
  /etc/init.d/pwcheck start
  ..... pwcheck: /var/run/pwcheck/pwcheck: No such file or directory

  To resolve, I followed newgroup ideas. ln -s /var/state/pwcheck /var/run

2) In sendmail /usr/share/sendmail/update_tls reports that -rand should be used. Ths was caused by the running of
openssl. Somehow, perhaps, a file of random (from /dev/urandom?) could be supplied.

3) After installing cyrus, sendmail should be reconfigured with MAILER(cyrus).

4) As specified in /usr/share/doc/cyrus-common/install.txt.gz:

     8. LINUX SYSTEMS ONLY: Set the configuration, user, quota, and
        partition directories to update synchronously. Failure to do this
        may lead to data corruption and/or loss of mail after a system
        crash.

           cd /var/imap
           chattr +S . user quota
           chattr +S /var/spool/imap

        Also set the queue directory of the mail daemon to update
        synchronously. The following example is for sendmail:

           /sbin/chattr +S /var/spool/mqueue

5) As specified in /usr/share/doc/cyrus-common/install.txt.gz:
  
     3. The Cyrus IMAP server uses the 4.3BSD syslog that separates
        messages into both levels and categories. Invoke "man syslog" to
        see if "openlog()" takes three arguments. If it does not, replace
        the system "syslogd" and "syslog.conf" with the files provided in
        the cyrus-imapd-1.5.14/syslog directory.

           mv syslogd /etc/syslogd
           mv syslog.conf /etc/syslog.conf

        If you do not copy the "syslog.conf" file in
        "cyrus-imapd-1.5.14/syslog" to the "/etc" directory, be sure to add
        support for "local6.debug". The file should include a line like:

           local6.debug  /var/adm/imapd.log

        Create the imapd.log file:

           touch /var/adm/imapd.log


  Perhaps the syslog entry should be made by default.