On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 10:55:09AM +0200, david fuchs wrote:
> On Sun, May 27, 2007 9:45 pm, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> > On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 09:05:04PM +0200, david fuchs wrote:
> >> so I've installed courier-authdaemon and courier-imap (the latest
> >> versions) on a debian 4.0.
> >>
> >> however, the authdaemon refuses to start:
> >>
> >> # /etc/init.d/courier-authdaemon start
> >> Starting Courier authentication services: authdaemond
> >> # ps aux | grep auth
> >> root     27097  0.0  0.2   2876   704 pts/0    R+   20:58   0:00 grep
> >> auth
> >> #
> >>
> >> no error messages, nothing logged... it just does absolutely nothing.
> >> compilation was perfectly smooth.
> >>
> > When you say compilation went smoothly, am I to gather that you used the
> > upstream sources?  If so, what was wrong with the Debian packages?
> 
> I'm installing from source because the debian packages don't support the
> vchkpw authentication module of vpopmail.
> 
I have written a howto [0] which covers customizing Debian packages.
It might make your life a little easier if you just take the Debian
package and modify it to suit your needs.  Additionally, if the
modification that you make can peacfully coexist with the default
compile-time options that the package currently has, please consider
filing a wishlist bug requesting that the change be incorporated into
the package.

> >
> > Have you looked in /var/log/daemon.log?
> 
> yes. there's absolutely nothing related to authdaemon there  :(
> 
Hmm.  Could you post the relevant configuration files?

Regards,

-Roberto

[0] http://people.connexer.com/~roberto/howtos/debcustomize
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Roberto C. Sánchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com

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