2000-06-21, at 17:44:26, Clifford Thurber wrote:
> Hello,
> I just did a recent install of qmail and installed the ucpsi tools as well.
> I added the bootscripts for qmail as well. The problem is that qmail
> doesn't start at boot and /var/adm/messages doesn't give any hint as to why
> it is not starting. If I try to start qmail from the command line using
> '/var/qmail/rc &' then do a 'ps -ef | grep qmail' I don't see anything
> however there is now a message in /var/adm/messages which says :
> " cygnus qmail: 961545697.225492 alert: cannot start unable to switch to
> queue directory"
> The queue directory is owned by user qmailq and group qmail. The mode is
> set to 750 on the queue directory. I am at a loss as to the nature of this
> error. If anyone could give me some feedback on this I would greatly
> appreciate it. Thanks in advance.
When I was making one linux box few days ago I had the same problem.
My fix was:
rm -Rf /var/qmail/queue; cd /usr/src/qmail-1.03;
make setup check
After this it works perfectly (and any of qmail-qsanity or queuefix
didn't work).
Please write me (private of course) how did it go.
--
greetings,
Sylwester S. Biernacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
