Joao Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >I have installed qmail by following the steps that Dave Sill provides
>> >in his web-site (http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html). Still, when
>> >I try to start qmail I get the following error message continuously:
>> >
>> >-n Starting qmail: svscan
>> >/etc/init.d/qmail: /var/qmail/run/svscan.pid: cannot create
>>
>> Hmm. What platform are you running on? The "-n" is an BSD vs. Sys V
>> thing, and is ugly, but won't prevent the script from working. I don't
>> know where you got /var/qmail/run/svscan.pid from, though, because the
>> script in LWQ uses /var/run/svscan.pid. But even that's not enough to
>> cause the following:
>
>I am running on SunOS 5.6.
You can replace the
echo -n "blah blah blah: "
with
echo "blah blah blah: \c"
I'm still concerned about /var/qmail/run/svscan.pid
vs. /var/run/svscan.pid. Was this something you changed intentionally?
>> >supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-send/supervise/lock: access denied
>> >supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: access denied
>> >supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-smtpd/supervise/lock: access denied
>> >supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: access denied
>>
>> What does the following show:
>>
>> ls -lR /var/qmail/supervise
>
>[snipped]
OK, that all looks good.
These are the same symptoms you get if you run "qmail start" twice
without a "qmail stop" in between. What does the following show:
qmail stat
ps -ef |grep qmail
-Dave
