Failed to open /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf /etc/dovecot.cert.pem for writing : Bad file descriptor

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#1 Wed, 10/26/2011 - 19:09

fullproofed

Failed to open /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf /etc/dovecot.cert.pem for writing : Bad file descriptor

Hello!

I was trying to copy the SSL certificate to dovecot and postfix, but when I tried to copy to dovecot, I got the following error:

"Failed to open /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf /etc/dovecot.cert.pem for writing : Bad file descriptor"

When I looked, I'm thinking it is because /etc/dovecot doesn't exist. All that is in there is /etc/dovecot.conf.

My system is Centos 5.5 - and I did a fresh install and setup of Virtualmin. By the way, I love it. Thanks so much for the hard work!

#2 Wed, 10/26/2011 - 22:06

andreychek

Hmm, you may have run into a bug...

If you create a directory "/etc/dovecot", does it work at that point?

-Eric

#3 Sat, 10/29/2011 - 15:18

fullproofed

I created /etc/dovecot and by default the permissions were 755. I still get:

Failed to open /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf /etc/dovecot.cert.pem for writing : Bad file descriptor

Thanks again.

#4 Mon, 10/31/2011 - 09:03

andreychek

Yeah, those permissions should be okay.

What do you see if you run this command:

ls -la /etc/dovecot/

#5 Mon, 10/31/2011 - 14:33 (Reply to #4)

fullproofed

The output is:

total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 30 02:06 . drwxr-xr-x 61 root root 4096 Oct 31 23:14 ..

#6 Fri, 11/04/2011 - 08:16 (Reply to #5)

umd

hi there

i have the same issue with a clean install of 3.88 gpl script on a fresh 5.7 CentOS

someone an idea?

#7 Fri, 11/04/2011 - 09:10

andreychek

Hrm, I'm a bit stumped as to what might cause that... how about this, what does the command "mount" show on your system?

-Eric

#8 Fri, 11/04/2011 - 10:43

fullproofed

the output of mount is:

/dev/simfs on / type simfs (rw,relatime,usrquota,grpquota)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)
non on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_mixc type binfmt_misc (rw,relatime)

Hopefully that is correct, I'm using putty here at work, and I just typed the output here. I don't know how to copy and paste yet ;)

I thought I would add that the version of Virtualmin I am using is 3.88 GPL as well. I ran some updates, and Centos is now 5.7, but when I installed and encountered the issue it was 5.5. It is a VPS, so maybe there was some modifications done to the CentOS image. Hopefully this helps.

#9 Fri, 11/04/2011 - 11:34

umd

/dev/vzfs on / type reiserfs (rw,usrquota,grpquota)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)
none on /dev type tmpfs (rw,relatime)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,relatime)

it is also a VPS here the OS was a 5.4 but i updated it to 5.7 before i ran the script.

#10 Fri, 11/04/2011 - 11:51

andreychek

Hmm, what output do you receive if you run this command:

find /etc -name dovecot.conf

I wonder if that config file is in a non-standard location...

-Eric

#11 Fri, 11/04/2011 - 12:04

umd

well i found it allready there (/etc/dovecot.conf) and was suprised to see that virtualmin was searching it in /etc/dovecot/.

#12 Fri, 11/04/2011 - 16:10

fullproofed

I found it as well in the same location: /etc/dovecot.conf

#13 Sat, 11/05/2011 - 09:29

andreychek

Okay, if you go into Webmin -> Servers -> Dovecot -> Module Config, try changing the path to the Dovecot config file to be just /etc/dovecot.conf -- that may resolve the issues you're seeing.

-Eric

#14 Sat, 11/05/2011 - 11:07

fullproofed

That worked for me. When I went to the module config for Dovecot, the entry I saw was:

/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf /etc/dovecot.conf

I just removed the first, and left it as /etc/dovecot.conf - then it copied just fine. Thank you for your help, and for Virtualmin as a whole!

#15 Fri, 11/25/2011 - 14:18

kato

Mine worked the same as fullproofed; looks like the double entries for dovecot.conf don't work and have to be changed to /etc/dovecot.conf

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