Well I think I may have located the source of the trouble but
it's still puzzling. Both the Life With Qmail and the Running
qmail book want the /var/qmail directory created while logged in
as root. That gives ownership to the user root in the group
root. Then, the qmail-specific groups and users are added. The
problem is that when I run linuxconf and look at the created
users, I receive a warning that the home directory of /var/qmail
has an invalid owner and group. Could this be the cause of my
problems? I'm not exactly a newbie to file and directory
permissions, but in reading all the qmail documentation I can
lay my hands on I see nothing that indicates I need to change
the ownership and group of /var/qmail from root/root.
Nevertheless, linuxconf is whining and my compile goes nowhere,
and this all smells like a permissions issue.
I'm running Mandrake 8.
Thanks for your patient help.
Steve.
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 02:43:15PM +1200, Steve Reed wrote:
> > So, I'm stumped. Why is config (or config-fast) unhappy?
>
> Because it's expecting dirs and stuff in /var/qmail that
aren't there.
>
> Run "strings - install | grep /" and look for a fully-
qualified path
> (ie. starting with a slash) that doesn't look system-related.
In your
> case, since you didn't change conf-qmail, you should
see /var/qmail.
> If you see something else instead, that's where all your qmail
stuff got
> installed -- all you gotta do is figure out why it went
there. 8-)
>
> - Adrian
>
