Public bug reported:
>From a fresh installation of qmail I find
jon@frobenius:/etc/qmail/qmail-send$ ls -l supervise
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 May 21 20:17 supervise ->
/var/lib/supervise/qmail-send
jon@frobenius:/etc/qmail/qmail-send$ ls -l /var/lib/qmail/supervise/
total 12
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Mar 3 2015 qmail-send -> /etc/qmail/qmail-send
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 May 22 12:23 qmail-send.log
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Mar 3 2015 qmail-smtpd -> /etc/qmail/qmail-smtpd
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 May 22 12:23 qmail-smtpd.log
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Mar 3 2015 qmail-verify -> /etc/qmail/qmail-verify
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 May 22 12:23 qmail-verify.log
jon@frobenius:/var/lib$ sudo qmailctl start
Starting qmail
qmail-send supervise not running
qmail-smtpd supervise not running
qmail-verify supervise not running
jon@frobenius:/var/lib$ sudo qmailctl stat
/etc/service/qmail-send: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist
/etc/service/qmail-send/log: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist
/etc/service/qmail-smtpd: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist
/etc/service/qmail-smtpd/log: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist
/etc/service/qmail-verify: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist
/etc/service/qmail-verify/log: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist
messages in queue: 0
messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0
The problem occurs because the files supervise all point to a non-
existent directory /var/lib/supervise. The correct directory is
/var/lib/qmail/supervise This can be overcome with
jon@frobenius:/var/lib$ sudo ln -s qmail/supervise supervise
jon@frobenius:/var/lib$ sudo qmailctl start
Starting qmail
jon@frobenius:/var/lib$ sudo qmailctl stat
/etc/service/qmail-send: up (pid 57710) 3 seconds
/etc/service/qmail-send/log: up (pid 57722) 3 seconds
/etc/service/qmail-smtpd: up (pid 57713) 3 seconds
/etc/service/qmail-smtpd/log: up (pid 57721) 3 seconds
/etc/service/qmail-verify: up (pid 57720) 3 seconds
/etc/service/qmail-verify/log: up (pid 57723) 3 seconds
messages in queue: 0
messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0
But, I believe the correct fix is to create the correct links from the
subdirectories of /etc/qmail
jon@frobenius:/var/lib$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Release: 20.04
jon@frobenius:/var/lib$ apt-cache policy qmail-run
qmail-run:
Installed: 2.0.2+nmu1
Candidate: 2.0.2+nmu1
Version table:
*** 2.0.2+nmu1 500
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
I expected qmail to start, and qmailctl stat to show me it running.
Instead I got the error messages above
** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: qmail qmail-run
** Attachment added: "/var/log/syslog"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1929293/+attachment/5499443/+files/syslog
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qmil-run sets up the wrong symbolic links so qmail won't start
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