courier-authlib not installing

bluethundr · 04-11-2010, 11:08 PM

Hello,

I am attempting to install courier-authlib onto a CentOS 5.4 server in the AWS cloud so I can get my mail server up and running again.

I'll be using courier. A pre-req for getting this to work is courier-authlib.

I was able to run ./configure as the user courier in the /home/courier/courier-authlib-0.63.0 directory

I ran it with this command

Code:

./configure --sysconfdir=/etc/courier/ --without-ipv6 --with-db=gdbm --with-shellpath=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin --with-ispell=/usr/bin/ispell --enable-imageurl=/var/www/html/webmail --enable-https=auto --enable-hardtimeout=7200  --disable-autorenamesent --with-calendarpurge=60 --with-cacheowner

and this is the tail end of the non-working result:

Code:

make[2]: Entering directory `/home/courier/courier-authlib-0.63.0/userdb'
make  install-am
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/courier/courier-authlib-0.63.0/userdb'
make[4]: Entering directory `/home/courier/courier-authlib-0.63.0/userdb'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
test -z "/usr/local/share/man/man8" || /bin/mkdir -p "/usr/local/share/man/man8"
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 makeuserdb.8 userdb.8 userdbpw.8 '/usr/local/share/man/man8'
/usr/bin/install: cannot remove `/usr/local/share/man/man8/makeuserdb.8': Permission denied
/usr/bin/install: cannot remove `/usr/local/share/man/man8/userdb.8': Permission denied
/usr/bin/install: cannot remove `/usr/local/share/man/man8/userdbpw.8': Permission denied
make[4]: *** [install-man8] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/courier/courier-authlib-0.63.0/userdb'
make[3]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/courier/courier-authlib-0.63.0/userdb'
make[2]: *** [install] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/courier/courier-authlib-0.63.0/userdb'
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/courier/courier-authlib-0.63.0'
make: *** [install] Error 2

please note that sudo will not work here, courier will admonish you to not run ./configure as root if you try that tactic.

Any help towards my goal of getting this software to run will be greatly appreciated.

bluethundr · 04-11-2010, 11:24 PM

ah, got it! only ./configure needs to be run as a non-privileged user but make and make install HAVE to be run as sudo... brainfart solved...