[SOLVED] Help, I think I am running Zimbra as root!

**primaxx** · 10-06-2010, 12:02 AM

Hello,

I am having some trouble running a backup-script made for the FOSS-edition, and therefore posted some questions in this thread:
[SOLVED] Yet Another Backup Script for Community Version

What I learned from the response is that it seems that I am running Zimbra as root, which is absolutely not my intention!

I don't want to hijack the above mentioned thread, so I post my question here instead.

If i run the following command it gives the result "root". It should have returned "zimbra", right?

Code:

administrator@mail:~$ ps -ef | grep '/opt/zimbra' | grep "java" | grep -v "zmmailboxdmgr" | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}' | head -n 1
root
administrator@mail:~$

If I restart Zimbra manually I do it like this:

Code:

administrator@mail:~$ sudo su
[sudo] password for administrator:
root@mail:/home/administrator# su zimbra
zimbra@mail:/home/administrator$ zmcontrol restart

In my naivity I believed that this made Zimbra run as the Zimbra-user, not root...

What do I have to do to ensure that I am running Zimbra as the correct user?

Thankyou for any response!

**uxbod** · 10-06-2010, 12:06 AM

Code:

su - zimbra
zmcontrol stop ; zmcontrol start

Notive the '-' between su and zimbra. That informs the shell to source in the environment variables.

You may also have accidentally broken some of the permissions by running as root so I would suggest shutting down ZCS and then running as root /opt/zimbra/libexec/zmfixperms --extended

**primaxx** · 10-06-2010, 12:12 AM

Thank you!

I have allready (after suggestions from LaFong) tried with the "-", but that didn't make any difference.

I will now try the zmfixperm, but since this is in a production-environment I will have to prepare my users before shutting down the server.
I will report the results when done.

**primaxx** · 10-06-2010, 02:12 AM

Ok,
I ran the command

Code:

./zmfixperms --extendend

but still Zimbra is run as root. I recieved no errors.

Which log should I look at in order to see what went wrong?

**uxbod** · 10-06-2010, 02:19 AM

Please post the following

Code:

ps aux | grep zimbra
grep zimbra /etc/sudoers

**primaxx** · 10-06-2010, 02:23 AM

Originally Posted by uxbod

Please post the following

Code:

ps aux | grep zimbra
grep zimbra /etc/sudoers

I am so greatful for your efforts to help me!

Here are the (long) outout of the commands:

Code:

root@mail:/home/administrator/Skript# ps aux | grep zimbra
root      8777  0.0  0.6 406028 12896 ?        Sl   Oct04   0:36 /opt/zimbra/java/bin/java -Xmx256M -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 org.hsqldb.Server -database.0 /opt/Funambol/tools/hypersonic/data/funambol -dbname.0 funambol
root      8791  0.0  1.2 418508 24880 ?        Sl   Oct04   0:36 /opt/zimbra/java/bin/java -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Dfunambol.home=/opt/Funambol -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Xmx256M -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=7101 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false com.funambol.ctp.server.CTPServer
root      8818  0.1  2.5 702992 52340 ?        Sl   Oct04   3:51 /opt/zimbra/java/bin/java -Xmx512M -Dfunambol.debug=false -Dfunambol.home=/opt/Funambol -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Djava.library.path=/opt/Funambol/ds-server/lib/linux -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=/opt/Funambol/ds-server/lib/security/cacerts -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=8101 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Djava.awt.headless=true -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/opt/Funambol/tools/tomcat/conf/logging.properties -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/opt/Funambol/tools/tomcat/endorsed -classpath :/opt/Funambol/tools/tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar -Dcatalina.base=/opt/Funambol/tools/tomcat -Dcatalina.home=/opt/Funambol/tools/tomcat -Djava.io.tmpdir=/opt/Funambol/tools/tomcat/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start
root      8855  0.0  1.1 415388 22776 ?        Sl   Oct04   0:33 /opt/zimbra/java/bin/java -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Dfunambol.home=/opt/Funambol -Dfunambol.pushlistener.config.bean=com/funambol/email/inboxlistener/InboxListenerConfiguration.xml -Djava.library.path=/opt/Funambol/inbox-listener/lib/linux -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=/opt/Funambol/inbox-listener/lib/security/cacerts -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Xmx256M -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=4101 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false com.funambol.email.inboxlistener.service.InboxListener
root      8869  0.0  1.0 415688 22668 ?        Sl   Oct04   0:33 /opt/zimbra/java/bin/java -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Dfunambol.home=/opt/Funambol -Dfunambol.pushlistener.config.bean=com/funambol/pimlistener/PIMListenerConfiguration.xml -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Xmx256M -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=3101 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false com.funambol.pimlistener.service.PimListener
zimbra   11296  0.0  1.5 139320 32064 ?        Ssl  11:08   0:00 /opt/zimbra/openldap/sbin/slapd -l LOCAL0 -4 -u zimbra -h ldap://mail.mailserver.no:389 ldapi:/// -F /opt/zimbra/data/ldap/config
zimbra   12604  0.0  0.3  10716  6984 ?        Ss   11:08   0:00 /opt/zimbra/libexec/logswatch --config-file=/opt/zimbra/conf/logswatchrc --use-cpan-file-tail --pid-file=/opt/zimbra/log/logswatch.pid --daemon --script-dir=/opt/zimbra/data/tmp -t /var/log/zimbra-stats.log
zimbra   12605  0.0  0.3  18328  6532 ?        S    11:08   0:00 /usr/bin/perl /opt/zimbra/libexec/zmlogger
zimbra   12707  0.0  0.1   8708  3924 ?        S    11:08   0:00 zmlogger: zmrrdfetch: server
zimbra   12713  0.0  0.3  11092  7620 ?        Ss   11:08   0:00 /usr/bin/perl /opt/zimbra/libexec/zmmtaconfig
zimbra   12738  0.0  0.0   4512  1788 ?        S    11:08   0:00 /bin/sh /opt/zimbra/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe --defaults-file=/opt/zimbra/conf/my.cnf --external-locking --log-error=/opt/zimbra/log/mysql_error.log --ledir=/opt/zimbra/mysql/libexec
zimbra   12939  0.2  7.6 612840 157824 ?       Sl   11:08   0:01 /opt/zimbra/mysql/libexec/mysqld --defaults-file=/opt/zimbra/conf/my.cnf --basedir=/opt/zimbra/mysql --datadir=/opt/zimbra/db/data --pid-file=/opt/zimbra/db/mysql.pid --skip-external-locking --port=7306 --socket=/opt/zimbra/db/mysql.sock --external-locking
root     14701  0.0  0.0   1704   380 ?        Ss   11:08   0:00 /opt/zimbra/libexec/zmmailboxdmgr start -server -Djava.awt.headless=true -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:NewRatio=2 -XX:PermSize=128m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m -XX:SoftRefLRUPolicyMSPerMB=1 -verbose:gc -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps -XX:+PrintGCApplicationStoppedTime -Dsun.net.inetaddr.ttl= -Xss256k -Xms807m -Xmx807m -Xmn201m
zimbra   14702  3.2 15.6 1161148 324248 ?      Sl   11:08   0:27 /opt/zimbra/java/bin/java -server -Djava.awt.headless=true -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:NewRatio=2 -XX:PermSize=128m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m -XX:SoftRefLRUPolicyMSPerMB=1 -verbose:gc -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps -XX:+PrintGCApplicationStoppedTime -Dsun.net.inetaddr.ttl= -Xss256k -Xms807m -Xmx807m -Xmn201m -Djava.io.tmpdir=/opt/zimbra/mailboxd/work -Djava.library.path=/opt/zimbra/lib -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/opt/zimbra/mailboxd/common/endorsed -Dzimbra.config=/opt/zimbra/conf/localconfig.xml -Djetty.home=/opt/zimbra/mailboxd -DSTART=/opt/zimbra/mailboxd/etc/start.config -jar /opt/zimbra/mailboxd/start.jar /opt/zimbra/mailboxd/etc/jetty.properties /opt/zimbra/mailboxd/etc/jetty-setuid.xml /opt/zimbra/mailboxd/etc/jetty.xml
zimbra   14712  0.0  0.0  44004   908 ?        Ssl  11:08   0:00 /opt/zimbra/memcached/bin/memcached -d -P /opt/zimbra/log/memcached.pid
zimbra   15739  0.0  0.0   4836   720 ?        Ss   11:09   0:00 nginx: master process /opt/zimbra/nginx/sbin/nginx -c /opt/zimbra/conf/nginx.conf
zimbra   15741  0.0  0.1   6728  2672 ?        S    11:09   0:00 nginx: worker process
zimbra   15742  0.0  0.1   6728  2692 ?        S    11:09   0:00 nginx: worker process
zimbra   15745  0.0  0.1   6728  2692 ?        S    11:09   0:00 nginx: worker process
zimbra   15747  0.0  0.1   6728  2684 ?        S    11:09   0:00 nginx: worker process
zimbra   15784  0.1  3.0  72816 62228 ?        Ss   11:09   0:00 amavisd (master)
zimbra   15824  0.0  3.3  79484 69656 ?        S    11:09   0:00 amavisd (ch2-avail)
zimbra   15825  0.0  3.2  78016 68048 ?        S    11:09   0:00 amavisd (ch1-avail)
zimbra   15826  0.0  3.1  74940 65200 ?        S    11:09   0:00 amavisd (ch3-avail)
zimbra   15827  0.0  3.1  75040 65092 ?        S    11:09   0:00 amavisd (ch1-avail)
zimbra   15828  0.3  3.2  77416 67708 ?        S    11:09   0:03 amavisd (ch4-avail)
zimbra   15830  0.0  3.1  76000 65940 ?        S    11:09   0:00 amavisd (ch1-avail)
zimbra   15831  0.0  3.1  76100 65632 ?        S    11:09   0:00 amavisd (ch1-avail)
zimbra   15832  0.0  3.1  74244 64260 ?        S    11:09   0:00 amavisd (ch1-avail)
zimbra   15835  0.0  3.1  75152 65584 ?        S    11:09   0:00 amavisd (ch2-avail)
zimbra   15839  0.0  3.1  74504 64560 ?        S    11:09   0:00 amavisd (ch1-avail)
zimbra   15849  1.3 11.7 278760 241876 ?       Ssl  11:09   0:10 /opt/zimbra/clamav/sbin/clamd --config-file=/opt/zimbra/conf/clamd.conf
zimbra   15865  0.0  0.2   7640  4912 ?        S    11:09   0:00 /usr/bin/perl /opt/zimbra/libexec/swatch --config-file=/opt/zimbra/conf/swatchrc --use-cpan-file-tail --script-dir=/opt/zimbra/data/tmp -t /var/log/zimbra.log
zimbra   15875  0.0  0.3  10712  7852 ?        S    11:09   0:00 /usr/bin/perl /opt/zimbra/data/tmp/.swatch_script.15865
zimbra   15876  0.0  0.3  12816  6848 ?        Ss   11:09   0:00 /opt/zimbra/httpd-2.2.15/bin/httpd -k start -f /opt/zimbra/conf/httpd.conf
zimbra   15903  0.0  0.2  12816  6108 ?        S    11:09   0:00 /opt/zimbra/httpd-2.2.15/bin/httpd -k start -f /opt/zimbra/conf/httpd.conf
zimbra   15904  0.0  0.2  12816  6108 ?        S    11:09   0:00 /opt/zimbra/httpd-2.2.15/bin/httpd -k start -f /opt/zimbra/conf/httpd.conf
zimbra   15905  0.0  0.2  12816  6108 ?        S    11:09   0:00 /opt/zimbra/httpd-2.2.15/bin/httpd -k start -f /opt/zimbra/conf/httpd.conf
zimbra   15907  0.0  0.2  12816  6108 ?        S    11:09   0:00 /opt/zimbra/httpd-2.2.15/bin/httpd -k start -f /opt/zimbra/conf/httpd.conf
zimbra   15908  0.0  0.2  12816  6108 ?        S    11:09   0:00 /opt/zimbra/httpd-2.2.15/bin/httpd -k start -f /opt/zimbra/conf/httpd.conf
root     16894  0.0  0.0   7464  1832 ?        Ss   11:09   0:00 /opt/zimbra/postfix/libexec/master
zimbra   16900  0.0  0.0   7388   784 ?        Ss   11:09   0:00 /opt/zimbra/cyrus-sasl/sbin/saslauthd -r -a zimbra
zimbra   16903  0.0  0.0   7388   536 ?        S    11:09   0:00 /opt/zimbra/cyrus-sasl/sbin/saslauthd -r -a zimbra
zimbra   16905  0.0  0.0   7388   508 ?        S    11:09   0:00 /opt/zimbra/cyrus-sasl/sbin/saslauthd -r -a zimbra
zimbra   16906  0.0  0.0   7388   508 ?        S    11:09   0:00 /opt/zimbra/cyrus-sasl/sbin/saslauthd -r -a zimbra
zimbra   16907  0.0  0.0   7388   508 ?        S    11:09   0:00 /opt/zimbra/cyrus-sasl/sbin/saslauthd -r -a zimbra
zimbra   17182  0.0  0.2   7584  4816 ?        S    11:09   0:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /opt/zimbra/libexec/zmstat-proc
zimbra   17184  0.0  0.2   7324  4624 ?        S    11:09   0:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /opt/zimbra/libexec/zmstat-cpu
zimbra   17191  0.0  0.2   7324  4648 ?        S    11:09   0:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /opt/zimbra/libexec/zmstat-vm
zimbra   17193  0.0  0.2   7320  4648 ?        S    11:09   0:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /opt/zimbra/libexec/zmstat-io -x
zimbra   17195  0.0  0.2   7324  4600 ?        S    11:09   0:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /opt/zimbra/libexec/zmstat-df
zimbra   17202  0.0  0.2   7324  4624 ?        S    11:09   0:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /opt/zimbra/libexec/zmstat-io
zimbra   17247  0.0  0.2   7540  4632 ?        S    11:09   0:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /opt/zimbra/libexec/zmstat-fd
zimbra   17260  0.2  0.2   8136  5336 ?        S    11:09   0:01 /usr/bin/perl -w /opt/zimbra/libexec/zmstat-allprocs
zimbra   17274  0.0  0.2   7456  4724 ?        S    11:09   0:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /opt/zimbra/libexec/zmstat-mysql
zimbra   17295  0.0  0.2   7324  4564 ?        S    11:09   0:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /opt/zimbra/libexec/zmstat-mtaqueue
zimbra   17304  0.0  0.2   7748  5000 ?        S    11:09   0:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /opt/zimbra/libexec/zmstat-nginx
root     17601  0.0  0.2   7392  4676 ?        S    11:09   0:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /opt/zimbra/libexec/zmstat-fd
zimbra   17956  0.0  0.0   2032   764 ?        S    11:09   0:00 /usr/bin/iostat -d -k 30
zimbra   17957  0.0  0.0   1860   624 ?        S    11:09   0:00 /usr/bin/vmstat -n -S K 30
zimbra   17958  0.0  0.0   2032   760 ?        S    11:09   0:00 /usr/bin/iostat -d -k -x 30
root     25755  1.9  1.2  58216 25084 ?        S    11:18   0:05 gedit file:///var/log/zimbra.log
root     28816  0.0  0.0   3016   804 pts/1    R+   11:23   0:00 grep zimbra

And:

Code:

root@mail:/home/administrator/Skript# grep zimbra /etc/sudoer
grep: /etc/sudoer: No such file or directory
root@mail:/home/administrator/Skript#

**uxbod** · 10-06-2010, 02:39 AM

You missed an 's' of sudoers ... pressing TAB will auto complete the line for you

**primaxx** · 10-06-2010, 02:53 AM

Ah...

Here's the output:

Code:

root@mail:/home/administrator/Skript# grep zimbra /etc/sudoers
%zimbra ALL=NOPASSWD:/opt/zimbra/libexec/zmstat-fd *
%zimbra   ALL=NOPASSWD:/opt/zimbra/openldap/libexec/slapd
%zimbra   ALL=NOPASSWD:/opt/zimbra/libexec/zmslapd
%zimbra   ALL=NOPASSWD:/opt/zimbra/postfix/sbin/postfix, /opt/zimbra/postfix/sbin/postalias, /opt/zimbra/postfix/sbin/qshape.pl, /opt/zimbra/postfix/sbin/postconf,/opt/zimbra/postfix/sbin/postsuper
%zimbra   ALL=NOPASSWD:/opt/zimbra/libexec/zmqstat,/opt/zimbra/libexec/zmmtastatus
%zimbra ALL=NOPASSWD:/opt/zimbra/libexec/zmmailboxdmgr
%zimbra ALL=NOPASSWD:/opt/zimbra/bin/zmcertmgr
%zimbra ALL=NOPASSWD:/opt/zimbra/nginx/sbin/nginx
root@mail:/home/administrator/Skript#

**LaFong** · 10-06-2010, 09:46 AM

Code:

root@mail:/home/administrator/Skript# ps aux | grep zimbra | grep -i Funambol
root      8777  0.0  0.6 406028 12896 ?        Sl   Oct04   0:36 /opt/zimbra/java/bin/java -Xmx256M -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 org.hsqldb.Server -database.0 /opt/Funambol/tools/hypersonic/data/funambol -dbname.0 funambol
root      8791  0.0  1.2 418508 24880 ?        Sl   Oct04   0:36 /opt/zimbra/java/bin/java -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Dfunambol.home=/opt/Funambol -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Xmx256M -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=7101 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false com.funambol.ctp.server.CTPServer
root      8818  0.1  2.5 702992 52340 ?        Sl   Oct04   3:51 /opt/zimbra/java/bin/java -Xmx512M -Dfunambol.debug=false -Dfunambol.home=/opt/Funambol -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Djava.library.path=/opt/Funambol/ds-server/lib/linux -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=/opt/Funambol/ds-server/lib/security/cacerts -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=8101 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Djava.awt.headless=true -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/opt/Funambol/tools/tomcat/conf/logging.properties -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/opt/Funambol/tools/tomcat/endorsed -classpath :/opt/Funambol/tools/tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar -Dcatalina.base=/opt/Funambol/tools/tomcat -Dcatalina.home=/opt/Funambol/tools/tomcat -Djava.io.tmpdir=/opt/Funambol/tools/tomcat/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start
root      8855  0.0  1.1 415388 22776 ?        Sl   Oct04   0:33 /opt/zimbra/java/bin/java -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Dfunambol.home=/opt/Funambol -Dfunambol.pushlistener.config.bean=com/funambol/email/inboxlistener/InboxListenerConfiguration.xml -Djava.library.path=/opt/Funambol/inbox-listener/lib/linux -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=/opt/Funambol/inbox-listener/lib/security/cacerts -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Xmx256M -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=4101 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false com.funambol.email.inboxlistener.service.InboxListener
root      8869  0.0  1.0 415688 22668 ?        Sl   Oct04   0:33 /opt/zimbra/java/bin/java -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Dfunambol.home=/opt/Funambol -Dfunambol.pushlistener.config.bean=com/funambol/pimlistener/PIMListenerConfiguration.xml -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Xmx256M -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=3101 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false com.funambol.pimlistener.service.PimListener

You have installed funambol, and it is using the java in the /opt/zimbra directory, and running its processes as root. When you restart Zimbra, you are not restarting funambol. so the root-owned funambol processes are always at the top of the list. Change the running-as user query to ignore funambol:

Code:

administrator@mail:~$ ps -ef | grep '/opt/zimbra' | grep "java" | grep -vi Funambol | grep -v "zmmailboxdmgr" | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}' | head -n 1

You are not running Zimbra as root, so you just need to change the backup script, as shown above.

**primaxx** · 10-06-2010, 11:04 AM

It worked!

Thank you both for helping me out here, it has been a really frustrating journey so far!
I am so happy! -And I have learned something to, which is a pleasant bonus!

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