Cyrus Installaion Problems

[Schmehl, Paul L]

Cyrus uses sysexist.h.  Error 75 is a temp error.  It looks like
something is wrong with your install, because the cyrus master process
won't keep running.  Check the docs and make sure you've properly
configured cyrus.conf and imapd.conf.

Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Department Coordinator
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harsimran Hansrai [mailto:simran at jatt.dynu.com] 
> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 8:00 PM
> To: Schmehl, Paul L
> Cc: info-cyrus at andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: RE: Cyrus Installaion Problems
> 
> 
> Paul,
> 
> I tried that as well, but when I run the command 
> /usr/cyrus/bin/master & 
> and then issue a ps -aux | grep cyrus command I get the following:
> [1]+  Exit 78                 /usr/cyrus/bin/master
> and the process just quits.
> 
> I also tried starting the master process by ./master and it 
> just drops me 
> to the command prompt # without any messages.
> 
> Thanks,
> Simran
> 
> On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Schmehl, Paul L wrote:
> 
> > OK.  You have to get the Cyrus process going before you can 
> use imtest 
> > or the other utilities to test it.  I don't know where you  
> installed 
> > Cyrus, but if it's in the default location from a source 
> install, it 
> > will be in /usr/cyrus/bin/.  If that's where it is, you 
> start it like
> > this:
> > /usr/cyrus/bin/master &
> > 
> > The "&" is important.  Otherwise the process will run in the 
> > foreground, and you won't be able to do anything else.  You 
> can set up 
> > Cyrus to run on startup by putting the above line in the 
> /etc/rc.local 
> > file.  Make sure you add the "&" so it will run in the background.
> > 
> > Once you have Cyrus started, then try imtest and see if you can 
> > connect successfully.
> > 
> > Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
> > Department Coordinator
> > The University of Texas at Dallas
> > AVIEN Founding Member
> > http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/
> > 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Harsimran Hansrai [mailto:simran at jatt.dynu.com]
> > > Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 4:11 PM
> > > To: Schmehl, Paul L
> > > Cc: Harsimran Hansrai; info-cyrus at andrew.cmu.edu
> > > Subject: RE: Cyrus Installaion Problems
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Hi Paul,
> > > 
> > > I do not get any processes running for cyrus when I do ps -aux | 
> > > grep
> > > cyrus.  I just get 
> > > root     31540  0.0  0.4  1700  604 pts/8    S    14:09   
> > > 0:00 grep cyrus
> > 
> 
>