Bowie Bailey wrote:
> I've got an odd problem.  I haven't run into this on any of my other
> Courier installs.
> 
> 
> # /usr/lib/courier/sbin/courierfilter start
> /var/spool/courier/tmp/courierfilter.pid: Permission denied
> 
> # ll /var/spool/courier/
> total 28
> drwxr-x---  2 mailuser mailuser 4096 Nov 29 11:02 allfilters
> drwx------  2 mailuser mailuser 4096 Nov 29 11:02 faxtmp
> drwxr-x---  2 mailuser mailuser 4096 Nov 29 11:02 filters
> drwxr-x---  2 mailuser mailuser 4096 Nov 29 11:02 msgq
> drwxr-x---  2 mailuser mailuser 4096 Nov 29 11:02 msgs
> drwxrwx---  2 mailuser mailuser 4096 Dec 14 11:30 tmp
> drwxr-xr-x  2 mailuser mailuser 4096 Nov 29 11:02 track
> 
> # ll /var/spool/courier/tmp/
> total 12
> -rw-------  1 root   root   0 Dec 14 09:00 courierd.lock
> -rw-------  1 root   root   0 Dec 14 09:00 esmtpd-msa.pid.lock
> -rw-r--r--  1 root   root   6 Dec 14 11:30 esmtpd.pid
> -rw-------  1 root   root   0 Dec 14 09:00 esmtpd.pid.lock
> -rw-------  1 root   root   0 Dec 14 10:53 esmtpd-ssl.pid.lock
> -rw-r--r--  1 root   root   6 Dec 14 11:30 imapd.pid
> -rw-------  1 root   root   0 Dec 14 09:00 imapd.pid.lock
> -rw-r--r--  1 root   root   6 Dec 14 11:30 imapd-ssl.pid
> -rw-------  1 root   root   0 Dec 14 09:00 imapd-ssl.pid.lock
> prw-rw----  1 daemon daemon 0 Dec 14 11:30 trigger
> 
> 
> All of the courier processes should be running as either root or
> mailuser.  So why am I getting a "Permission denied" here?
> 
> Any suggestions on how to track this down?
> 
> Thanks,
> Bowie
> 
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What's the permissions of the directories '/var/spool' and
'/var/spool/courier'?
Perhaps the problem lies there.

// Fredrik


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