On Friday 16 December 2005 18:40, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Scott Courtney writes: > > > DEBUG: LOGIN: ip=[(null)], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > DEBUG: LOGIN: ip=[(null)], password=(password_here) > > ERR: authdaemon: s_connect() failed: No such file or directory > > Authentication FAILED: No such file or directory > > You probably forgot to start authdaemond. > > See “Starting and stopping the authentication daemon” in courier-authlib's > INSTALL.
That was it, exactly. And I apparently failed my literacy test, because it turns out that I totally misunderstood what I read in the docs. I didn't forget to start authdaemond -- I started the wrong one! I was trying to start it using this: # /usr/local/courier/libexec/courier-authlib/authdaemond start And got this: Error: authdaemond no longer handles its own daemonizing. Use new startup script. It appears I misunderstood the documentation the first time I read it. The other startups were in libexec, so that was where I was looking for the "authdaemond" that was mentioned in IMAP's INSTALL. I didn't realize -- until just now, reading your note -- that there were *two* scripts of the same name. Oops. My error in reading the docs was to think that this error message meant the pop3d.rc and/or imapd.rc scripts (those being the only other "startup" scripts I knew about) must be supposed to start authdaemond internally. Since the docs said run "the" (so I thought) startup script, and the one I ran said *not* to run it, I assumed the docs must be slightly out of date from the very latest code release (the last time I installed Courier IMAP was in something like version 3.0 or somewhere along there -- it's been working great in a heavy production environment, so we haven't messed with it). The version of "authdaemond" that I really needed installs into /usr/local/sbin/ (or similar, depending on ./configure options). I didn't RTFM. I MRTFM (*misread* the fine manual). Thanks for helping me find my mistake. It's working fabulously now. By way of payback.... I'd be willing to write this up more lucidly, as a brief FAQ entry, if someone can tell me to whom it should be submitted for publication. (I'm new to this list.) Scott -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scott Courtney | "I don't mind Microsoft making money. I mind them [EMAIL PROTECTED] | having a bad operating system." -- Linus Torvalds http://4th.com/ | ("The Rebel Code," NY Times, 21 February 1999) | PGP Public Key at http://4th.com/keys/scott.pubkey ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ Courier-imap mailing list Courier-imap@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-imap
