Cannot start exim; Permission denied

Peculiar

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I meddled with installing MailScanner (bad idea) and it messed up exim. I removed it following this guide.

Then, I tried and re-installed exim with the following:

Code:
[root@server exim]# cd /usr/local/directadmin/scripts
[root@server scripts]# ./exim.sh

And ran majordomo which tells me everything is "good".

But when I try to start exim, it gives me the following error:
Code:
[root@server majordomo]# service exim start
env: /etc/init.d/exim: Permission denied

Any idea?


Edit: Are these permissions ok?
Code:
[root@server exim]# ls -al /usr/sbin/exim
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 918104 Jul 19  2011 /usr/sbin/exim
[root@server exim]# ls -al /var/log
total 5668
drwxr-xr-x. 10 root     root        4096 May 16 15:40 .
drwxr-xr-x. 21 root     root        4096 Mar 15  2014 ..
-rw-------.  1 root     root       43898 Dec 28  2013 anaconda.syslog
-rw-------.  1 root     root       29459 Dec 28  2013 anaconda.xlog
drwxr-x---.  2 root     root        4096 May 15 18:26 audit
-rw-r--r--   2 root     root      470795 May 14 07:21 boot.log
-rw-------   1 root     utmp           0 May 14 06:53 btmp
drwxr-xr-x   2 clam     clam        4096 Mar 30 02:51 clamav
-rw-------   1 root     root      509012 May 16 17:51 cron
-rw-------   1 root     root      214371 May 15 03:36 cron-20160515
drwx------.  2 diradmin diradmin    4096 May 16 09:14 directadmin
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root       21023 May 14 06:42 dmesg
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root      190835 May 14 07:20 dracut.log
drwxr-xr-x.  2 mail     mail        4096 Jul 19  2011 exim
drwx------.  3 root     root        4096 May 16 00:11 httpd
drwxr-xr-x.  2 root     root        4096 Jun 22  2012 iptraf
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root      147752 May 16 15:40 lastlog
-rw-------   1 root     root       22956 May 16 17:10 lfd.log
-rw-------   1 root     root        5470 May 15 03:36 lfd.log-20160515.gz
-rw-------   1 root     root      250349 May 16 17:45 maillog
-rw-------   1 root     root       85115 May 15 03:33 maillog-20160515
-rw-------   1 root     root     2684192 May 16 17:51 messages
-rw-------   1 root     root     1094402 May 15 03:36 messages-20160515
drwxr-xr-x.  2 ntp      ntp         4096 Jan 25 17:38 ntpstats
drwxr-xr-x.  2 root     root        4096 May 16 00:10 proftpd
-rw-------   1 root     root        5196 May 16 17:47 secure
-rw-------   1 root     root        5302 May 15 03:00 secure-20160515
-rw-------   1 root     root           0 May 15 03:36 spooler
-rw-------   1 root     root           0 May 14 06:42 spooler-20160515
-rw-------   1 root     apache         0 May 15 03:36 suphp.log
-rw-------   1 root     apache         0 May 14 10:44 suphp.log-20160515
-rw-------   1 root     root           0 May 14 06:50 tallylog
-rw-rw-r--   1 root     utmp       24960 May 16 15:00 wtmp
-rw-------   1 root     root       17373 May 16 15:42 yum.log


EDIT 2: I should have mentioned that in removing MailScanner I accidentaly deleted /init.d/ and recreated it. My hunch is that this is causing the problem somehow.
 
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