Subject: Re: qmail installation error
From: W.D.McKinney (deem@wdm.com)
Date: Tue Dec 23 2003 - 08:42:30 AKST
On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 13:47, Wesley Brown wrote:
> Thanks to the list I have been following the instructions for installation of qmail to a T, at least I think. Now I am at the point (on the installation instructions I am halfway through 2.9 "Test the installation"), where I am to view the error messages logged by a program called readproctile which is managed by svscan.
>
> It says to see these messages type:
> # ps -ef1 | grep "service errors" | grep -v grep
>
> and I should see something like:
> (they give an example of some type of error)
>
> Well, I see nothing.
>
> Then it says that sometimes it helps to run a service manually in order to find configuration problems.
>
> So, I type:
>
> cd /service/qmail-smtpd/log
> svc -d
> ./run
>
> and then I get this error:
> multilog: fatal: unable to lock directory /var/log/qmail/smtpd: temporary failure
>
> What does this mean and how do I fix it?
>
> Thanks for all the help, this is a dedicated LUG.
Merry Christmas Wesley,
OK, if you haven't yet fixed this issue, as root :
mkdir -p /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd
chmod 755 /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run
mkdir -p /var/log/qmail/smtpd
chown qmaill /var/log/qmail /var/log/qmail/smtpd
ln -s /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd /service
Now use this and report back with findings:
qmailctl stat
Have fun!
Dee
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