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.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Constantine Koulis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 6:41 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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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