>On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 01:41:40AM -0500, David Dahl wrote:
>
>> I cannot get qmail to startup properly:
>
>The examples you showed are from an installation that uses daemontools. Is
>svscan running?
Yes, it is installed and can run. i guess i just realized that i did
not activate svscan in inittab...
do i need to reboot now?
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>
>> shutdown and error:
> > =============================================
> qmail-send
> > svc: warning: unable to control /service/qmail-send: file does not exist
>
>Those directories aren't being supervised; probably svscan isn't running
I guess I do not understand how "supervise" works...
> > listing of /service:
>> ==============================================
>>
>> [root@mckenna /service]# ls -lia
> > total 16
> qmail-smtpd -> /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd//
> > 32620 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 212 Jul 3 10:16 run*
>
>Why is there a "log" directory and a "run" file in your /service? You have
>your /service directory configured like it is a service itself; it's not.
>the /service directory is used to tell svscan where to find services to
>supervise. Also, the /service directory should be owned root.root, not
>root.qmail
I have been following "Life with qmail" all night. It says to setup
the log dir and run file in that directory.
>You should only have symlinks to service directories in /service, like the
>ones you have for qmail-send and qmail-smtpd . If svscan can't start those,
>it writes messages to the console.
i did
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>
>> do i even need xinietd with tcpserver?
>
>No; tcpserver is a replacement for inetd-like tools.
>
> > do i have permissions problems up in /service?
>
>Apart from it being owned root.qmail, no.
>
>Vince.
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