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Bug 447016

Summary: mail-mta/courier-0.69.0 fails to create lockfiles in /var/run/courier/
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Stefan Kiesler <heavymetal>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Stefan Kiesler 2012-12-12 15:19:55 UTC
As /var/run is now tmpfs in Gentoo, courier should create the required folder in /var/run at runtime, not during the installation.

# /etc/init.d/courier restart
 * Stopping Courier mail server: ...
 *  Stopping courier-esmtpd ...
/var/run/courier/esmtpd.pid.lock: No such file or directory
 *  Stopping courier-esmtpd-msa ...
/var/run/courier/esmtpd-msa.pid.lock: No such file or directory
 *  Stopping courier-esmtpd-ssl ...
/var/run/courier/esmtpd-ssl.pid.lock: No such file or directory
 *  Stopping courier-pop3d ...
/var/run/courier/pop3d.pid.lock: No such file or directory
 *  Stopping courier-pop3d-ssl ...
/var/run/courier/pop3d-ssl.pid.lock: No such file or directory
 *  Stopping courier-imapd ...
/var/run/courier/imapd.pid.lock: No such file or directory
 *  Stopping courier-imapd-ssl ...
/var/run/courier/imapd-ssl.pid.lock: No such file or directory
 *  Stopping courierd ...
 *  Stopping courierfilterd ...                                                                                                                        [ ok ]
 * Starting Courier mail server: ...
/var/run/courier/esmtpd.pid.lock: No such file or directory
/var/run/courier/esmtpd-msa.pid.lock: No such file or directory
 *  Starting courierfilterd ...
 *  Starting courierd ...
 *  Starting esmtpd ...
 *  Starting esmtpd-msa ...
 *  Starting esmtpd-ssl ...
/var/run/courier/esmtpd-ssl.pid.lock: No such file or directory
ll_daemon_start: Resource temporarily unavailable
 *  courier-pop3d ...
/var/run/courier/pop3d.pid.lock: No such file or directory
ll_daemon_start: Resource temporarily unavailable                                                                                                      [ ok ]
Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-12-12 15:30:37 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 442372 ***