Ken Murchison wrote: > > Olaf Zaplinski wrote: > >>Hi *, >> >>has someone had this error also while installing 2.0.16? >> >>$ /usr/src/cyrus-imapd-2.0.16/tools/mkimap >>reading configure file... >>i will configure directory /var/imap. >>i saw partition /var/spool/imap . >>you are using /var/imap/sieve as your sieve directory. >>done >>creating /var/imap... >>creating /var/imap/sieve... >>creating /var/spool/imap ... >>couldn't change to partition /var/spool/imap at (eval 1) line 157. >> >>$ ls -ld /var/spool/imap/ >>drwxr-x--- 2 cyrus mail 48 Apr 18 19:27 /var/spool/imap/ > > > Hmm. What are the permissions on the parent directories? If they are > not 'executable' by the user in question, then that user can't cd to > lower directories. > > Ken
It's 0755 for /var and /var/spool - and simply cd'ing to /var/spool/imap as user cyrus is possible, file creation also. Olaf
