On Monday 26 January 2004 12:19, Guntha Aravind babu wrote: > i have been asking questions ,but i could not get any > responses.
You did actually get a response. Someone (wisely) said that you need to go read up on how to compile programs on a linux system and then read through the courier installation instructions again. The courier instructions are complicated and so you need to go carefully through them until you understand how it works. It's tempting to just skim them and begin working, but you will just have problems later if you do that - once you get the software installed you won't know how to configure it and once it's configured you won't know how to maintain it. Take the time to work through the instructions and learn how things work in this piece of software. You will be glad later that you did. In this case your first problem is that you need to install the software as "root". If you do that then everything will be installed in the proper place. So rerun configure (without the --prefix) and then make and then become the root user. Type "su" and then enter your root password. THEN run "make install". Now courier will be installed where you expect it - /usr/lib/courier-imap. In the same way when you start courier you also need to start it as root. Courier listens on the imap and imaps ports and for security only the root user can run programs that listen on those ports. So start courier as root and it should start up normally. Jeff Jansen ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
