RE: tcpserver blues
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
Of Joerg Lenneis
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 4:31 AM
To: Nick (Keith) Fish
Cc: Chris Ochap; Qmail Mailing List
Subject: Re: tcpserver blues
Nick (Keith) Fish:
Chris Ochap wrote:
start() {
# Start daemons.
echo -n $Starting $prog:
daemon /var/qmail/rc
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcprules/tcp.smtp.cdb -u
51 -g 50 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
RETVAL=$?
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] touch /var/lock/subsys/qmail
echo
return $RETVAL
}
Try adding 21 to the end of the tcpserver line, so:
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcprules/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 51 -g 50 0
smtp
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21
[...]
That is not correct, that will just redirect stderr to stdout.
You need to put a single at the end of the line that starts up
tcpserver to put the process into the background.
regards,
--
Joerg Lenneis
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: tcpserver blues
Hi Chris
You put this query up on the 10th. and tc lewis replied? I would endorse his
answer to you, look into supervise from the daemontools toolkit.
If you are starting off with qmail and want to get it up and going then go
with one of the established methods of setting it up - Life with qmail
and/or Tetsu Ushijima's excellent qmail-conf which has complete
configuration scripts for setting up qmail.
http://www.din.or.jp/~ushijima/qmail-conf.html
I believe that it is not recommended to run qmail in the background, and
with tcpserver it is not necessary. The DJB suite has a special way of
working together with tcpserver, the relevant executable (qmail, smtpd,
pop3d) and multilog. tcpserver listens for connections to a port (e.g. 25)
and kicks off the relevant program (smtpd) as required. It is correct that
21 redirects stderr to stdout but this is actually used (I believe, one
of the regular guys can confirm this) as a special pipe for multilog to pipe
the output to the multilog log for the service.
This is my machines run script for smptd generated by Ushijima's qmail-conf.
You'll see that smtpd is called without the background option. It works
:-)
Cheers
Patrick
#!/bin/sh
exec 21 \
envdir ./env \
sh -c '
case $REMOTENAME in h) H=;; p) H=p;; *) H=H;; esac
case $REMOTEINFO in r) R=;; [0-9]*) R=t$REMOTEINFO;; *) R=R;; esac
exec \
envuidgid qmaild \
softlimit ${DATALIMIT+-d$DATALIMIT} \
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver \
-vDU$H$R \
${LOCALNAME+-l$LOCALNAME} \
${BACKLOG+-b$BACKLOG} \
${CONCURRENCY+-c$CONCURRENCY} \
-xtcp.cdb \
-- ${IP-0} ${PORT-25} \
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
'
From: Chris Ochap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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That is not correct, that will just redirect stderr to stdout.
You need to put a single at the end of the line that starts up
tcpserver to put the process into the background.
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Re: tcpserver blues
Nick (Keith) Fish:
Chris Ochap wrote:
start() {
# Start daemons.
echo -n $Starting $prog:
daemon /var/qmail/rc
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcprules/tcp.smtp.cdb -u
51 -g 50 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
RETVAL=$?
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] touch /var/lock/subsys/qmail
echo
return $RETVAL
}
Try adding 21 to the end of the tcpserver line, so:
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcprules/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 51 -g 50 0 smtp
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21
[...]
That is not correct, that will just redirect stderr to stdout.
You need to put a single at the end of the line that starts up
tcpserver to put the process into the background.
regards,
--
Joerg Lenneis
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tcpserver blues
can anyone help me figure out why qmail-smtpd will not start. i have been
following multiple peices of literature to complete the install...although
they all differ slightly...i have had no trouble with any stage of the
install except getting qmail to start listening for remote deliveries.
whenever i enter the tcpserver command to start qmail-smtpd whether it be in
a startup script or command line...i get
tcpserver: status: 0/40
and the prompt just sits there like it is waiting for me to enter another
parameter. i am fairly confident that the command line options are all
correct:
tcpserver executable and switches -v = verbose -p = accept comm w/o remote
host dns lookup -x = use rules database
location of rules database with a very simple set of rules
user and group ids for qmail users...define whether tcpserver is on
localhost...use smtp...ok sorry im going over what most of you probably know
already. does anyone have any suggestions or need more info? here is a
copy of my little script...i am running rh 7.1. thanx all.
---
# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
# Source networking configuration.
. /etc/sysconfig/network
# Check that qmail is loaded
[ -f /var/qmail/bin/qmail-start ] || exit 0
RETVAL=0
prog=qmail
start() {
# Start daemons.
echo -n $Starting $prog:
daemon /var/qmail/rc
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcprules/tcp.smtp.cdb -u
51 -g 50 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
RETVAL=$?
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] touch /var/lock/subsys/qmail
echo
return $RETVAL
}
stop() {
# Stop daemons.
echo -n $Stopping $prog:
killproc qmail-send
RETVAL=$?
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] rm -f /var/lock/subsys/qmail
echo
return $RETVAL
}
restart() {
stop
start
}
# See how we were called.
case $1 in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
restart)
restart
;;
*)
echo $Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}
exit 1
esac
exit $?
Re: tcpserver blues
tcpserver runs in the foreground. that line:
tcpserver: status: 0/40
is its [logging] output. when it accepts a new connection, it will output
more.
just run it in the background.
maybe pipe stdout and stderr to a file for logging.
or be elegant and use supervise and svscan (see daemontools
documentation on cr.yp.to).
-tcl.
On Thu, 10 May 2001, Chris Ochap wrote:
can anyone help me figure out why qmail-smtpd will not start. i have been
following multiple peices of literature to complete the install...although
they all differ slightly...i have had no trouble with any stage of the
install except getting qmail to start listening for remote deliveries.
whenever i enter the tcpserver command to start qmail-smtpd whether it be in
a startup script or command line...i get
tcpserver: status: 0/40
and the prompt just sits there like it is waiting for me to enter another
parameter. i am fairly confident that the command line options are all
correct:
tcpserver executable and switches -v = verbose -p = accept comm w/o remote
host dns lookup -x = use rules database
location of rules database with a very simple set of rules
user and group ids for qmail users...define whether tcpserver is on
localhost...use smtp...ok sorry im going over what most of you probably know
already. does anyone have any suggestions or need more info? here is a
copy of my little script...i am running rh 7.1. thanx all.
---
# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
# Source networking configuration.
. /etc/sysconfig/network
# Check that qmail is loaded
[ -f /var/qmail/bin/qmail-start ] || exit 0
RETVAL=0
prog=qmail
start() {
# Start daemons.
echo -n $Starting $prog:
daemon /var/qmail/rc
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcprules/tcp.smtp.cdb -u
51 -g 50 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
RETVAL=$?
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] touch /var/lock/subsys/qmail
echo
return $RETVAL
}
stop() {
# Stop daemons.
echo -n $Stopping $prog:
killproc qmail-send
RETVAL=$?
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] rm -f /var/lock/subsys/qmail
echo
return $RETVAL
}
restart() {
stop
start
}
# See how we were called.
case $1 in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
restart)
restart
;;
*)
echo $Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}
exit 1
esac
exit $?
Re: tcpserver blues
Chris Ochap wrote:
start() {
# Start daemons.
echo -n $Starting $prog:
daemon /var/qmail/rc
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcprules/tcp.smtp.cdb -u
51 -g 50 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
RETVAL=$?
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] touch /var/lock/subsys/qmail
echo
return $RETVAL
}
Try adding 21 to the end of the tcpserver line, so:
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcprules/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 51 -g 50 0 smtp
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21
This should cause qmail-smtpd to run in the background instead of directly on
whatever tty you are attached to. To test rather it is running or not, tail it
the log file it outputs while telnetting into port 25 of your machine.
--
Keith
Network Engineer
Triton Technologies, Inc.
