LinuxQuestions.org - /etc/init.d/cyrus Shell Script 'Permission denied'

Hi all,

I am unable to launch cyrus-imap daemon using a shell script that is located in /etc/init.d/. To be a little more specific I created the shell script based on a online how to:

http://www.delouw.ch/linux/Postfix-C...l/install.html

The script is nothing fancy it is the following:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

#

# Cyrus startup script



case "$1" in

    start)

        # Starting SASL saslauthdaemon

        /usr/local/sbin/saslauthd -c -a pam&



        # Starting Cyrus IMAP Server

        /usr/cyrus/bin/master &

        ;;



    stop)



        # Stopping SASL saslauthdaemon

        killall saslauthd



        # Stopping Cyrus IMAP Server

        killall /usr/cyrus/bin/master



        ;;



    *)

        echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop}"

        exit 1

        ;;



esac

I created the above script in a file named 'cyrus' its' full path being '/etc/init.d/cyrus'. I first created this using vi and did not chown or chmod the file or the directory. It gave the following error:

Quote:

foozle:/srv/www/htdocs/web-cyradm-0.5.4-1/config # /etc/init.d/cyrus start
bash: /etc/init.d/cyrus: Permission denied

I checked the owner = Root and group = Root. I then attempted to chown the cyrus script as 'chown 755 ...' . I attempted to issue the 'cyrus start' command (full path quoted above) and got the same permissions denied error. I again switched the user and group to chown cyrus:mail and again got the permissions denied error.

I then deleted the cyrus file and recreated it using kwrite. Still permissions denied, even after trying several different owners using chown.

I have googled and tried to match older posts in this forum but have yet to uncover a potential reason why this is failing and unfortunately no solution to the problem either.

I would appreciate your help. I know that it is something that is problem elementary; however it has been a long couple of days (You might think i'm an idiot because I have been attempting to get a full circle mail server running for almost one week - I have tried configurations for qmail and postfix; I have finally settled on postfix because Suse uses it natively. I would really like to get past this so if you have any ideas I welcome them.

Truly,
ServerStorm.