[Gllug] Cyrus IMAP delivery

[Xander D Harkness]

John Hearns wrote:

> On Wed, 2001-10-17 at 15:27, Xander D Harkness wrote:
> 
>>I get the following error everytime I try to admin a vanilla install of 
>>Cyrus on RH7.1.
>>
>>Does anyone have any ideas, I have done the obligatory search on Google 
>>and the red hat site - but come up empty.
>>
>>
>>
>>[root at tel /root]# !cyradm
>>cyradm -user cyrus localhost
>>IMAP Password:Login failed: generic failure at
>>/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux/Cyrus/IMAP/Admin.pm line 78
>>cyradm: cannot authenticate to server with  as cyrus
>>[root at tel /root]#
>>
>>
> 
> Here's where I come clean.
> I spent a pleasant afternoon last week,
> fighting a similar imap problem.
> Every tine I tried to run cyradm, it just spat back at me.
> Looked through every configuration I could think of.
> Turns out that inetd wasn't switched on..
> (insert donkey braying noises)
> Im my defence, it was a SuSE machine, and I HAD been fooling
> with Yast.
> Once inetd was started, then it started working again.
> 
> Xander, are you sure that imap is in the xinetd configuration?
> 
> 
> 
>

I have both xinetd and the master from cyrus running.

 
[root at tel /root]# netstat -anp
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address
State       PID/Program name
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:993             0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN      2528/master
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:98              0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN      714/xinetd
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:10082           0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN      714/xinetd
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:995             0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN      2528/master
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:10083           0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN      714/xinetd
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:901             0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN      714/xinetd
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:110             0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN      2528/master
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:143             0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN      2528/master
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:6000            0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN      1694/X
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22              0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN      679/sshd
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:3128            0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN      1682/(squid)
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:25              0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN      736/exim
tcp       24      0 172.21.132.222:1066     217.34.111.252:443
CLOSE_WAIT  2383/netscape-commu
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:3130
0.0.0.0:*                           1682/(squid)
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:3401
0.0.0.0:*                           1682/(squid)
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:10080
0.0.0.0:*                           714/xinetd
#######################################################


This is the messages log on a cyrus restart

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  Oct 17 16:42:46 tel cyrus: master shutdown succeeded
Oct 17 16:42:46 tel master[2590]: process started
Oct 17 16:42:46 tel ctl_mboxlist[2592]: running mboxlist recovery
Oct 17 16:42:46 tel ctl_mboxlist[2592]: done running mboxlist recovery
Oct 17 16:42:46 tel master[2590]: no service 'sieve' in /etc/services, 
disabling sieve
Oct 17 16:42:46 tel master[2590]: ready for work
Oct 17 16:42:46 tel ctl_mboxlist[2594]: checkpointing mboxlist
Oct 17 16:42:47 tel pidof: 2590
Oct 17 16:42:47 tel cyrus:  succeeded






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