On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Barry Dwyer wrote:
> I'm not new to *nix but this is my first go-round with mail systems. I'm
>
> installing qmail on a Calera OpenLinux 2.2 (col 2.2.5) system and have
> run into several show-stoppers.
>
> Basically, I need qmail, smtp and pop3 for this to be any use to us. (40
>
> internal users with pop clients, smtp relay to an external host for
> Internet email.)
>
> The first problem I have is I can't start the daemons -- Caldera does
> not include "setuser", which is referenced in the qmail daemon start
> scripts. Is there a work-around? Can I get setuser somewhere?
It's part of the daemontools package, and is now called setuidgid.
See http://pobox.com/~djb/daemontools.html
> The second problem is with checkpassword. On compilation I get errors
> regarding calls to the "crypt" library. The program appears to compile
> but when I test it against a valid user/password combination using:
>
> /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup host /bin/checkpassword pwd
>
> it exits with "-ERR authorization failed.
Are you running as root? If you're not running as root, and you
have shadowed passwords, you won't be able to test the authentication
against the password file.
> Exactly the same thing happens when I try to use the "checkvpw" utility
> from the vmailmanager package. How do I solve this?
>
> Another one: Our server has a dedicate connection to the 'net but does
> not run its own DNS service. I searched the archives and found only one
> not-too-helpful post on this issue. What do I need to do about DNS?
As long as your server can do DNS lookups from another nameserver, you
don't have to worry about it. You might want to run a caching nameserver
locally for efficiency, though.
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