Qmail was installed on a /var partition that turned out to be too small, so
I added a new 36 gig disk, made the old /var something else, and copied
everything with cp -R. Brought the system back up with the new 36 gig /var
partition, and qmail is only partially running. It does listen on port 25
and receive mail, but it doesn't seem to move messages past "preprocessed"
or deliver them. Qstat looks like below, the 12 messages being my tests
after the new /var partition.
messages in queue: 1207
messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 12
Other things that were on /var are all fine, and ps shows:
root 699 0.0 0.0 1308 348 ? S 14:39 0:00 supervise
qmail-smtpd
root 701 0.0 0.0 1308 348 ? S 14:39 0:00 supervise
qmail-send
qmaild 703 0.0 0.0 1332 368 ? S 14:39 0:00 tcpserver -v
-x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u100 -g503 0 25 qmail-smtpd
qmails 1222 0.0 0.0 1352 340 ? S 14:39 0:00 qmail-send
root 1227 0.0 0.0 1324 364 ? S 14:39 0:00 qmail-lspawn
|dot-forward .forward?./Maildir/
qmailr 1228 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 14:39 0:00
[qmail-rspawn <defunct>]
qmailq 1229 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 14:39 0:00 [qmail-clean
<defunct>]
root 3492 0.0 0.0 1588 604 pts/0 S 16:46 0:00 grep qmail
I'm very new to Linux and qmail, and don't know what <defunct>
means. Below is my /var/log/messages file of qmail starting upon bootup.
Feb 28 14:23:32 pmfp qmail: Starting mail-transport-agent:
Feb 28 14:23:32 pmfp qmail: svc: warning: unable to control
/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-popup: supervise not running
Feb 28 14:23:32 pmfp qmail: svc: warning: unable to control
/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send: supervise not running
Feb 28 14:23:32 pmfp qmail: qmail
Feb 28 14:23:32 pmfp qmail: svc: warning: unable to control
/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd: supervise not running
Feb 28 14:23:32 pmfp qmail: svc: warning: unable to control
/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-popup/log: supervise not running
Feb 28 14:23:32 pmfp qmail: logging.
Feb 28 14:23:32 pmfp qmail: svc: warning: unable to control
/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log: supervise not running
Feb 28 14:23:32 pmfp qmail: svc: warning: unable to control
/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log: supervise not running
Feb 28 14:23:32 pmfp rc: Starting qmail: succeeded
Is there an easy fix, or should I restore /var from a tape backup?
Stewart Vardaman
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