Paul == Paul Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm starting again from 'life with qmail' (about 3rd time now) and
whenever i put the line:
Your tendency to fail a step-by-step task amazes me.
SV:123456:respawn:env - PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin
svscan /service /dev/null /dev/console 2/dev/console
Yay. We got a line right.
in the inittab, it comes up with the folling error on the screen over and over again
Nice spelling.
Supervise: fatal: unable to start qmail-smtpd/run: file does not exist
What are the contents of /service/qmail-smtpd/run ? In particular,
what is the first line? Does it refer to a program that really exists?
Try typing that line on the command line without the #! and see if it
comes up with an error message, or does nothing. Also, make sure the
permissions of /service/qmail-smtpd/run are 0755.
/var/qmail/rc: ./Mailbox: No such file or directory
Have you put a carriage return where one doesn't belong? C'mon
now... We all know that the enter key in a shell script is a bad
thing. This isn't C we're talking about here...
I then have to remove the line and kill -HUP 1 to stop the errors.
There is a folder called /var/qmail/Mailbox so i dont know why its
not finding it.
Ughhh... You have badly misunderstood how qmail works, my friend. Read
some more doco before you post again.
Many thanks
Paul
Don't like to take the crap outta ya (well, actually, I do...) but
please read and investigate for more than five minutes before you
install qmail. There are many points that can go wrong if you do not
follow the instructions precisely, and understand how mail and unix
work.
Sit down, drink a cup of tea that's been spiked with something
relaxing, and try again...
B.
--
Indeed, it would not be an exaggeration to describe the history of
the computer industry for the past decade as a massive effort to keep
up with Apple.
- Byte, December 1994
