Off the top of my head I think you have a rights problem. You should
have copied the /var/qmail directory with cp -Rp - the -p keeps current
permissions, etc......
.mark
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>From: Stewart Vardaman[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 3:04 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Partition swap broke qmail
>
>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
>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
