Editing Sysadmin Notes

Notes on system administration gotchas, snafus, etc.

== Fun with Dovecot IMAP, Postfix, Squirrel Mail, Apache, etc. ==

I recently lost a disk and paid to have it recovered.  When I re-loaded my home directory, some of my file permissions got mangled.

When I tried to log into my Webmail facility, I received the following error message:
<pre>
ERROR: Could not complete request.
Query: LSUB "" "*"
Reason Given: Permission denied
</pre>

Fixing this problem involved finding all the Dovecot files in my home directory and changing the onwership and group back to my user rather than root.

Look for ''.subscriptions'' and ''.imap'' in your ''Mail'' directory (or ''mail'') and check the ownership and permissions.

== Fun with Java Keystores: How to import a private key and cert into a Java Keystore ==

I use SSL outside of Java for many things including Web servers, LDAP, SSL programming, etc.  Consequently, most of my systems already have private keys and x509 certs.  Java's ''keytool'' program it nearly impossible (as far as I can tell) to import pre-existing keys and certs into an existing or new keystore.

I came across [http://www.agentbob.info/agentbob/79-AB.html?branch=1&language=1 this] web page that describes out to do so.  I summarize here just in case this web page goes away.