ports/108606: Courier MTA terminates abnormaly after installation

Valery Marchuk vmarchuk at argocom.cv.ua
Wed Jan 31 14:50:28 UTC 2007


>Number:         108606
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       Courier MTA terminates abnormaly after installation
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jan 31 14:50:27 GMT 2007
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Valery Marchuk
>Release:        6.1, 6.2
>Organization:
ArgoCom
>Environment:
root at vpn# uname -a                                                                                                                                         
FreeBSD xxx.argocom.cv.ua 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #6: Mon Nov 27 14:54:21 EET 2006     root at vpn.argocom.cv.ua:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/vpn_kernel  i386

FreeBSD mail.xxx.xx 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #1: Sat Jan 27 10:41:52 UTC 2007     tecklord@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/gw_kernel  i386 

>Description:
PORTNAME=       courier 
PORTVERSION=    0.54.0  
After installation from /usr/ports/mail/courier server fails to function correctly. In the log file appears:

Jan 31 16:29:57 vpn courierd: Initializing dsn
Jan 31 16:29:57 vpn courierd: Started exec ./courierlocal, pid=44791, maxdels=10, maxhost=4, maxrcpt=1
Jan 31 16:29:57 vpn courierd: Started exec ./courieresmtp, pid=44792, maxdels=40, maxhost=4, maxrcpt=100
Jan 31 16:29:57 vpn courierd: Started exec ./courierdsn, pid=44793, maxdels=4, maxhost=1, maxrcpt=1
Jan 31 16:29:57 vpn courierd: queuelo=200, queuehi=400
Jan 31 16:29:57 vpn courierd: Purging /var/spool/courier/msgq
Jan 31 16:29:57 vpn courierd: Purging /var/spool/courier/msgs
Jan 31 16:29:57 vpn courierd: Permission denied
Jan 31 16:29:57 vpn courierd: ABNORMAL TERMINATION, exit status: 1
Jan 31 16:29:57 vpn courierd: Will restart in 60 seconds.


After setting 777 permissions for /var/spool/courier/msgs:

Jan 30 10:05:45 mail courierd: Started exec ./courierlocal, pid=2398, maxdels=10, maxhost=4, maxrcpt=1
Jan 30 10:05:45 mail courierd: Started exec ./courieresmtp, pid=2399, maxdels=40, maxhost=4, maxrcpt=100
Jan 30 10:05:45 mail courierd: Started exec ./courierdsn, pid=2400, maxdels=4, maxhost=1, maxrcpt=1
Jan 30 10:05:45 mail courierd: queuelo=200, queuehi=400
Jan 30 10:05:45 mail courierd: Purging /var/spool/courier/msgq
Jan 30 10:05:45 mail courierd: Purging /var/spool/courier/msgs 
Jan 30 10:05:45 mail courierd: ABNORMAL TERMINATION BY A SIGNAL 
Jan 30 10:05:45 mail courierd: Will restart in 60 seconds. 

Tested on FreeBSD 6.1 and 6.2

>How-To-Repeat:
Install courier MTA from /usr/ports/mail/courier and run it.
>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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