tcpserver daemon tools and xinetd
Hi, I am a new (and happy) qmail user. After spending days on reading various documents, man pages, how to pages, FAQ ... some things about daemon tools are still not so clear to me. qmail.org and qmail's author clearlly suggest to use tcpserver for qmail-smtpd and this is enough for me. But there is not any clear suggestion for using daemon tools instead of a superserver like xinetd (inetd is out of the question). In addition, the "install" file from the qmail source destribution has an example for using inetd to launch qmail-smtpd and pop3d. On the other hand qmail-howto, and allmost every othe document about qmail, are suggesting using daemon tools. Friends of mine working as administrators in medium size ISPs, are suggesting to use qmail-smtpd and qmail-pop3d with xinetd like they do. All these different oppinions confused me. I just want to know the best way to control qmail since I am expecting a high number of mail users. What I am concerned is a reliable, stable and efficient mail delivery. Only :) John
Whrere are my log files?
Hello, I have configured qmail-send & qmail-smtp to run under the daemon tools, according to qmail howto. For example I use the two following run script under /service/qmail-send/log/ #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t s250 /var/log/qmail/qmail-send /var/log/qmail /var/log/qmail/qmail-send are owned by qmaill My problem is that ther is nothing inside the log directories
Re: Whrere are my log files?
Hello again, >Is multilog running? Is the sticky bit set on /service/qmail-send? There are two instances of multilog running, one for qmai-send and one for qmail-smtpd. The sticky bit is set for /var/qmail/supervice/qmail-send (/service/qmail-send is a sim link to the former). I just worry if the /var/qmail/rc file is correct, because man qmail-start sais that default logger is splogger. Here it is. #!/bin/sh exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ qmail-start './Maildir/' John
Re: "Whrere are my log files?" The blind man said.
I was blind !!! The cause off all these was a missing backslash in the /service/qmail-send/log/run file. Thanks for your help. John
How to ignore .qmail-* files for given users?
Hello, I would like to prevent users with ftp access to change the delivery instructions for qmail. To be more specific, I want some users not to be able to receive mail at all (they all bellong to the same group) and others not be able to change delivery instruction by creating their own dot-qmail files via ftp (they all belong to another group). I suppose that this is controled by QMAILHOME/users/assign, but the man page is not very helpful. Can anyone help? John
Re: How to ignore .qmail-* files for given users?
You are right. wu.ftpd can restrict actions to files or directories matching a pattern. I am going to use it for now, but I would prefer to control all mail relative stuff from within qmail. I am going to experiment with qmail/users/assign file and see what I can do. Thanks John > I don't know that this is the most efficient way, but you should be able > to prevent all access to any file that starts with .qmail via your ftp > daemon setup. > > - T > > -- > Tyler J. Frederick > Systems Administrator > Sportsline.com, Inc. > > On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, John Chronakis wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I would like to prevent users with ftp access to change the > > delivery instructions for qmail. > > > > To be more specific, I want some users not to be able to receive mail at all > > (they all bellong to the same group) and others not be able to change > > delivery instruction by creating their own dot-qmail files via ftp > > (they all belong to another group). > > > > I suppose that this is controled by QMAILHOME/users/assign, > > but the man page is not very helpful. > > > > Can anyone help? > > > > John > > > > > >
