That is exactly what happened.
I was able to correct the SMTP problems by changing ownership back to what they were
and killing a couple of messages in the queue.
Thanks all for the help! You're all great!
--James
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load "linux",8,1
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 01:40:30, you wrote the following:
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When you untarred, did you FUBAR the file permissions?
When un-backing up using GNU tar ya should throw in a --same-permissions
option.
- Original Message -
From: "James Blackwell"
To:
Sent: 12 December 1999, Sunday 04:07
Subject: Please- qmail stopped delivering mail
Greetings,
We're running qmail with vchkpw and qmail-popup on a debian box and are in
despirate need of assistance.
Here are the steps leading up to my problems:
- We did a backup of the main directories
- There was a botched attempt at installing smtp-poplock
- It didn't work out too well, so we untar the backups to their correct
locations
SMTP now appears to be accepting messages, I can see them in the
/var/spool/qmail/mess directory.
No messages seem to be delivered until we reboot the box. Upon reboot all
mail is delivered, but then it starts not delivering again.
AND when I telnet in on port 110 it goes something like this:
Connected to host.domain.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK
user username_domain.net
+OK
pass mypassword
-ERR authorization failed
Connection closed by foreign host.
The password is correct as I when I do a vpasswd to change it, it asks for
the old password, then the new password. It then aborts and says old and
new passwords match. If I put in a different new password, it changes it.
ANY suggestions would be greatly appreciated. This has to work by the
morning (CT)!
TIA,
--James
