Dont know if qmail is installed

2001-05-27 Thread Constantine Koulis

Hello All.

I am trying to install the qmail but unfortunately i dont know whether or
not is installed on my system or no.i read the Qmail-HOW-to at
http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html and i followed every step.
I dont know as i said whether is installed or not.Can somebody tell me how
is start/stop the qmail?
Also is there a Gnome user interface to configure qmail?
Sincerely

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RE: Dont know if qmail is installed

2001-05-27 Thread David T. Ashley

Hi Constantine,

Qmail is not for the faint of heart!  The help on the web is ... well ...
scattered is the most sympathetic way to put it.

I recommmend buying a book.  The book I found is Running qmail by Richard
Blum.

See:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672319454/qid%3D991020593/002-159088
7-7183201

As far as whether it is installed, you would need to see if you have
executables in /var/qmail/bin.  But there is more to installation than that.

As far as a script to get it started, Mr. Blum recommends a script something
like the one below:

#!/bin/sh

#PATH=/var/qmail/bin
#export PATH

#Check that qmail is loaded.
[ -f /var/qmail/bin/qmail-start ] || exit 0

case $1 in
   start)
  echo -n Starting qmail ...
  /bin/csh -cf /var/qmail/rc 
  ;;
   stop)
  echo -n Stopping qmail ...
  /usr/bin/killall qmail-send
  ;;
   restart)
  $0 stop
  $0 start
  ;;
   *)
  echo -n Usage:  $0 {start|stop|restart}
  exit 1
esac

exit 0

#End of script.

That script is traditionally placed in /etc/rc.d/init.d, and there are
symbolic links elsewhere that get hit on system startup and shutdown.]

Furthermore, I might add that the script above breaks the qmail
recommendations, as it is not recommended to start it from a shell like
that.  However, for my pathetic little server which sits on a DSL line, the
computer is much faster than the DSL line.  I seriously doubt that anybody
could attack the thing based on overwhelming xinetd or something like that.

You want a book.  qmail assumes you know quite a bit about Unix.

Best regards, Dave.

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 Subject: Dont know if qmail is installed


 Hello All.

 I am trying to install the qmail but unfortunately i dont know whether or
 not is installed on my system or no.i read the Qmail-HOW-to at
 http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html and i followed every step.
 I dont know as i said whether is installed or not.Can somebody tell me how
 is start/stop the qmail?
 Also is there a Gnome user interface to configure qmail?
 Sincerely

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