On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 11:25:39PM -0800, Jon Reynolds wrote:
> The Subject of this email is the error i get at startup after i hit ctrl+c,
> when i reboot my system(freebsd4.3rc2)it hangs when trying to start qmail it
> looks like this:
>
> [1] 220
> qmail
> status: loal 0/10 remote 0/20
>
> at this point it hangs and will go no further until i hit ctrl+c when that
> is done i get the:
>
> smtpfwdd[352]: can't open semaphore file in "/var/smtpd/mqueue" (Permission
> denied) - bye!
I don't use xBSD myself, but a quick Google search suggests you're running
Obtuse smtpd/smtpfwdd (an SMTP store/forward proxy) on your system. The
first question you gotta ask yourself is: Why would you need it? Try
disabling it and see what happens.
> This is my first time installing qmail and it has been a harrowing
> experience :)
Probably because you didn't follow <http://www.lifewithqmail.org/>.
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