Spell Service Not Running

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Ryan Frantz
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Spell Service Not Running

Post by Ryan Frantz »

I can't seem to get the spell service to run. I ran the command:
# su - zimbra -c "zmcontrol start spell"
with no luck. Actually, it looks like 'zmcontrol' tries to start _all_ the services. Dunno about that. Anyhow, are there any logs I can check or other tests I can run to figure out why the service won't start?
I'm running Zimbra NE M2 on FC4.
marcmac
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Spell Service Not Running

Post by marcmac »

Check /opt/zimbra/log/httpd*.log for information.
To just start the spell server:

su - zimbra -c "zmspellctl start"
Ryan Frantz
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Spell Service Not Running

Post by Ryan Frantz »

Oddly enough, there are no httpd*log files in /opt/zimbra/log! Here's a dump of

the contents:
[root@zimbra log]# ls

amavisd.pid convertd.log.2005-12-03 tomcat.pid

audit.log convertd.log.2005-12-04 zimbra.log

audit.log.2005-12-01 freshclam.log zimbra.log.2005-12-01

audit.log.2005-12-02 freshclam.pid zimbra.log.2005-12-02

audit.log.2005-12-03 logger_myslow.log zimbra.log.2005-12-03

audit.log.2005-12-04 logger_mysqld.log zimbra.log.2005-12-04

clamd.log logswatch.pid zimbrastats-1133448897.log

clamd.pid myslow.log zmconvertd.log

convertd.log myslow.log.1.gz zmconvertdmon.pid

convertd.log.2005-12-01 mysqld.log zmmtaconfig.log

convertd.log.2005-12-02 swatch.pid zmmtaconfig.pid


So I ran the 'zmspellctl' command and it complained about libdb-4.2 missing:
[root@zimbra bin]# su - zimbra -c "zmspellctl start"

/opt/zimbra/httpd-2.0.54/bin/httpd: error while loading shared libraries: libdb-4.2.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I followed the directions in this post to install the appropriate Perl module for libdb-4.2:

to">http://www.zimbra.com/forums/showthread ... ta+stopped
to fix an earlier issue with missing libdb-4.2 requirements. I'm guessing, then, that the spell service does not use that module. What next?
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