Matus, you're the man. This was exactly the problem; those files were owned by root:root, and when changed to mail:mail, everything now works.
Sam, your suggestion to check the conf files was worthwhile too; indeed several of them were incomplete (I had not properly run all of the make* commands). However, fixing that alone didn't solve the problem. I think this is the first gentoo install I've done with a 64-bit kernel -- your example, and this new machine, both have the /usr/lib64/... path in common. There must be some problem with the package build under such circumstances. Thanks! cheers, -b On 11 Apr 2012, at 5:25 am, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > last time I've built courier on newer system, I've had the same > problem. It seems that many files that have to be owned by mail user > were owned by root, bin or so. check permissions of them: > > # ls -l /usr/lib64/courier/courier/modules/esmtp/ > total 244 > -r-xr-x--- 1 mail mail 6104 Mar 26 13:15 addcr > -r-xr-x--- 1 mail mail 154632 Mar 26 13:15 courieresmtp > -r-xr-x--- 1 mail mail 76648 Mar 26 13:15 courieresmtpd > > This happened with the same version of courier that was already built > without problems, only other gentoo packages got upgraded. -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician Zygoat Creative Technical Services http://www.zygoat.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second resolution app monitoring today. Free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
