courier init script needs to make sub-directory of /var/run

[Ross Burton]

The courier daemon uses /var/run/courier but this doesn't exist because /var/run is a tmpfs; its init script should make this directory

Also it looks somewhat like it should be using /var/lock anyway

With /var/run in tmpfs as is default in Dapper, courier refuses to start:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/courier-imap start
 * Starting Courier IMAP server... /var/run/courier/imapd.pid.lock: No such file or directory
ll_daemon_start: Resource temporarily unavailable

This is because /var/run/courier doesn't exist, by creating /var/run/courier and /var/run/courier/authdaemon it starts.

[Kent Nyberg (nyberg-kent)]

I have this problem in Dapper aswell. Those two directories does not exist and that makes /etc/init.d/courier-imap and courier-authdaemon not wanting to start. Creating the directories results in imap wanting to start.

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

This needs a tweak to its init script to create the directory.