Best install path for Redhat Enterprise 5

[D G Teed]

I'm looking at the various guides I see from google and from
that deposited by Redhat's RPM for cyrus-imapd.  Nothing
appears to be really current.

Most guides refer to building cyrus from source. I usually
avoid doing that as it is a hassle to maintain packages that way,
but then again Redhat has not updated their build in the last
2 years so perhaps it doesn't matter.

I have a problem starting cyrus from the Redhat package and
the init script.

I can start /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/cyrus-master as root
and it works OK.   I can login as cyrus with imtest.

If I run the cyrus-impad init, which works fine on
another Redhat install, I get errors:

Feb  3 16:20:34 navi master[13825]: process started
Feb  3 16:20:34 navi master[13827]: about to exec
/usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/ctl_cyrusdb
Feb  3 16:20:34 navi ctl_cyrusdb[13827]: DBERROR db4: /cyrus/imap/db:
Permission denied
Feb  3 16:20:34 navi ctl_cyrusdb[13827]: DBERROR db4:
/cyrus/imap/db/__db.001: Permission denied
Feb  3 16:20:34 navi ctl_cyrusdb[13827]: DBERROR: dbenv->open
'/cyrus/imap/db' failed: Permission denied
Feb  3 16:20:34 navi ctl_cyrusdb[13827]: DBERROR: init() on berkeley
Feb  3 16:20:34 navi ctl_cyrusdb[13827]: DBERROR: writing
/cyrus/imap/db/skipstamp: Permission denied
Feb  3 16:20:34 navi ctl_cyrusdb[13827]: DBERROR: init() on skiplist
Feb  3 16:20:34 navi ctl_cyrusdb[13827]: recovering cyrus databases
Feb  3 16:20:34 navi ctl_cyrusdb[13827]: IOERROR: opening
/cyrus/imap/mailboxes.db: Permission denied
Feb  3 16:20:34 navi ctl_cyrusdb[13827]: DBERROR: opening
/cyrus/imap/mailboxes.db: cyrusdb error
Feb  3 16:20:34 navi master[13825]: process 13827 exited, status 75
Feb  3 16:20:34 navi master[13828]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/idled
Feb  3 16:20:34 navi idled[13828]: DBERROR: dbenv->open '/cyrus/imap/db'
failed: Permission denied
Feb  3 16:20:34 navi idled[13828]: DBERROR: init() on berkeley
Feb  3 16:20:34 navi idled[13828]: DBERROR: reading
/cyrus/imap/db/skipstamp, assuming the worst: Permission denied

And it goes on until I stop the service.

The files and directories are owned by cyrus, so the permissions issue
seems odd.  E..g.

ls -l /cyrus/imap/
total 100
-rw------- 1 cyrus mail  144 Feb  3 16:15 annotations.db
drwx------ 2 cyrus mail 4096 Feb  3 16:20 db
drwx------ 2 cyrus mail 4096 Feb  3 16:15 db.backup1
-rw------- 1 cyrus mail 8192 Feb  3 16:15 deliver.db
drwx------ 2 cyrus mail 4096 Feb  3 13:40 log
-rw------- 1 cyrus mail  144 Feb  3 16:15 mailboxes.db
drwx------ 2 cyrus mail 4096 Feb  3 13:40 msg
drwx------ 2 cyrus mail 4096 Feb  3 16:17 proc
drwx------ 2 cyrus mail 4096 Feb  3 13:40 ptclient
drwx------ 2 cyrus mail 4096 Feb  3 16:20 rpm
drwxr-x--- 2 cyrus mail 4096 Feb  3 16:15 socket
drwx------ 2 cyrus mail 4096 Feb  3 13:40 sync

I have one other Redhat server running this OK, but I don't know what the
difference is.
For this reason, I'd rather not fix the problem by building from source
and having different styles of cyrus running.

Does anyone have a pointer?

--Donald
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