[Kroupware] Running Kolab on FreeBSD 5.1

[Christopher Lewis]

> > The biggest problem was getting Cyrus IMAPd to compile and run.
> > Unfortunately, the groupfile hack doesn't work with BSD.  The
> > fgetgrent call isn't available on BSD and needs to be replaced with
> > something that is platform independent.  I'm sorry, but I don't know
> > enough C to provide that.  Perhaps a Kolab developer can look at
> > this.
> 
> if the fgetgrent call is only invoked as fgetgrent("/etc/group/") then
> a replacement for fgetgrent could be getgrent, but to be POSIX
> compliant, one should use getgrnam and getgrgid, and to iterate over
> all groups the POSIX function getgroups must be used.
> 
> Jarl

Funny you should say that.  I looked on the internet to find a similar 
function for fgetgrent, and noticed the getgroups function.  So, I changed 
the fgetgrent calls to getgroups and imapd would compile.  However, after 
starting Kolab, it would crash.  Obviously, I did something wrong, but I 
don't know what it is.  I could also be wrong about this, but the getgroups 
function description looked like it does something different on Linux than it 
does in BSD.  

Thanks for the advice.
-- 
Christopher Lewis
Systems Administrator
Maxim Lighting International
chris at maximlighting.com
(626) 964-7500 x268