[bluemike]

I just installed Courier-IMAP for and Courier Authentication Library.

I don't really know linux, so I am following step-by-step from a book. So far, so good.

The problem is this: when I try to manually start 'courier-auth' I get a 'permission denied' error. I'm logged in as root, so how could anything be denied?

Here's what I've done so far:

mkdir -p /var/lib/courier/authdaemon
chmod 750 /var/lib/courier/authdaemon
chown mail:mail /var/lib/courier/authdaemon
chown mail:mail /usr/local/etc/couier/authlib/authdaemonrc

(then I moved the startup scripts to the init.d folder)

cp courier-authlib.sysvinit /etc/init.d/courier-auth

Here's where I am having trouble:

/etc/init.d/courier-auth start
bash: /etc/init.d/courier-auth: Permission Denied

I'm not sure why the root user would be denied permissions. Did I create my directories wrong maybe?

Thanks...

[DaijoubuKun]

it is possible that the program is designed so that you can not run it as root. chown and chgrp the file in your init.d to mail:mail like you have the other files. then su to the mail user and try to run it. also double check it that the file in your init.d dir is actually executable. If it's not that's usually why bash won't let you run it.

type 'ls -l' then look at your output, the first thing you'll see are the file permissions, you usually want rwxr-xr-x, but as long at the first part show it's executable you should be good.

[bluemike]

Thanks, that seemed to do the trick....

But now I have another question that I post seperately :P