Courier-imap ERROR: authdaemond is not running

Question

I recently upgraded the system and rebooted my server. On squirrelmail, I get a 
Error connecting to IMAP server: localhost.
111 : Connection refused
I get:
[root ~]: /etc/rc.d/courier-imap start
ERROR: authdaemond is not running
authdaemod seems to be running which makes everything spooky.
This is what I have installed an running at the moment.
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond sshd ntpd httpd spamd mysqld postfix rpcbind fam authdaemond courier-imap)
I know I am not giving a lot of info, please request, I'll post everything. Any hints, clues, anything will be greatly appreciated
w7zn7k

Answer 1

I've resolved the issue. It's in the /etc/rc.d/courier-imap script.
You need to change this line
if [ ! -f /var/run/daemons/authdaemond ]; then
with this line
if [ ! -f /var/run/authdaemond.pid ]; then
The full modified script:
#!/bin/bash
CI_DAEMONS=
[ -f /etc/conf.d/courier-imap ] && . /etc/conf.d/courier-imap
[ -z $AUTO_AUTHDAEMON_LAG ] && AUTO_AUTHDAEMON_LAG=2
[ -z $AUTO_AUTHDAEMON ] && AUTO_AUTHDAEMON="false"
. /etc/rc.conf
. /etc/rc.d/functions
case "$1" in
start)
[ -d /var/run/courier ] || mkdir -p /var/run/courier
chown courier:courier /var/run/courier
if [ "$AUTO_AUTHDAEMON" == "true" ]; then
/etc/rc.d/authdaemond start
sleep ${AUTO_AUTHDAEMON_LAG}
fi
if [ ! -f /var/run/authdaemond.pid ]; then
echo "ERROR: authdaemond is not running"
stat_fail
exit 1
fi
for daemon in $CI_DAEMONS; do
stat_busy "Starting Courier ${daemon}"
/usr/lib/courier-imap/${daemon}.rc start
if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then
stat_fail
else
add_daemon $daemon
stat_done
fi
done
stop)
for daemon in $CI_DAEMONS; do
stat_busy "Stopping Courier ${daemon}"
/usr/lib/courier-imap/$daemon.rc stop > /dev/null
if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then
stat_fail
else
rm_daemon $daemon
stat_done
fi
done
if [ "$AUTO_AUTHDAEMON" == "true" ]; then
/etc/rc.d/authdaemond stop
fi
restart)
$0 stop
sleep 1
$0 start
echo "usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
esac
exit 0
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