On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 12:25:06PM -0500, Ben Beuchler wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 10:41:03AM -0600, Bruce Guenter wrote:
> > Just to be pedantic, The 'r' bit is for listing the directory, but the
> > 'x' bit controls access to the files in the directory. So, qmail would
> > have been able t
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 10:49:52AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> Mea culpa. Thanks for the correction. I suppose I should have realized
> that, as qmail shouldn't need to list files -- the filenames are hardcoded,
> correct?
Yes.
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Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> htt
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 10:41:03AM -0600, Bruce Guenter wrote:
> > There's your problem. Nobody can list the contents of /var/qmail/control,
> > because the execute bits aren't set. Do a `chmod 755 /var/qmail/control`
> > and everything should work.
>
> Just to be pedantic, The 'r' bit is for
Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just to be pedantic, The 'r' bit is for listing the directory, but the
> 'x' bit controls access to the files in the directory. So, qmail would
> have been able to list the files but not open them.
Mea culpa. Thanks for the correction. I suppose I sho
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 09:49:02AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> Jonathan Fanti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Here is the output:
> [...]
> > drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 Sep 26 10:42 /
> > drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Sep 26 10:36 /var
> > drwxr-xr-x 13 root
> There's your problem. Nobody can list the contents of /var/qmail/control,
> because the execute bits aren't set. Do a `chmod 755 /var/qmail/control`
> and everything should work.
It works! thanks very much, your a star!
Jon.
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ICMP - The protocol that likes to go: PING!
owing us all of the output
his time?
Regards.
>
> Jon.
>
> Charles Cazabon wrote:
> >
> > Jonathan Fanti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > If I look at the log for qmail-send I it is full of the error "Alert:
> > > cannot start: unab
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On 27 Sep 2000, at 16:35, Jonathan Fanti wrote:
> drw-r--r--2 qmaill qmail4096 Sep 25 17:03
> /var/qmail/control
chmod a+x /var/qmail/control
(Why is /var/qmail/control owned by qmaill, anyway?
Compromising the logger compromises your
Jonathan Fanti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Here is the output:
[...]
> drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 Sep 26 10:42 /
> drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Sep 26 10:36 /var
> drwxr-xr-x 13 root qmail4096 Sep 26 17:55 /var/qmail
> drw-r--r--2 qmaill qmail
wrote:
>
> Jonathan Fanti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > If I look at the log for qmail-send I it is full of the error "Alert:
> > cannot start: unable to read controls!"
> >
> > This might be a silly question, but I have checked and I do hav
Jonathan Fanti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> If I look at the log for qmail-send I it is full of the error "Alert:
> cannot start: unable to read controls!"
>
> This might be a silly question, but I have checked and I do have all the
> required files in my /va
Hi,
After getting tcpserver working (thanks all for the help!), I have
started qmail.. I think!
If I look at the log for qmail-send I it is full of the error "Alert:
cannot start: unable to read controls!"
This might be a silly question, but I have checked and I do have all the
requ
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 12:47:16PM -0700, Steve Lewis wrote:
> from /var/log/messages:
> Sep 8 11:47:49 mybox qmail: 968438869.011886 alert: cannot start: unable
> to read controls
It means it is unable to read its control files. That means you have an
ownership or perms problem som
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Steve Lewis wrote:
> from /var/log/messages:
> Sep 8 11:47:49 mybox qmail: 968438869.011886 alert: cannot start: unable
> to read controls
please disregard, I recompiled on a hunch, and discovered an error that
slipped by me last time:
hard error
Sorry, I coul
il/rc &'
so instead I run
# csh -cf '/usr/local/qmail/rc &'
looking at TEST.deliver I stop at step one...
from /var/log/messages:
Sep 8 11:47:49 mybox qmail: 968438869.011886 alert: cannot start: unable
to read controls
Searched the list archives, the FAQ and other
qmail* under the bin directory.
Thanks for all the help.
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From: Medha Sabharwal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: qmail mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, November 14, 1999 10:16 PM
Subject: Can't start: unable to read controls { was: Re: deffered de
Thanks for the comments but the directory is world readable. With root as
owner of the same. Could permissions be the problem? Should it be root:
qmail? I have root:root for all the files under controls.
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To: Medha Sabharwal <[E
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