I Have a couple of questions about the qmail install. What I have doesn't
look right to me.
I). I am installing qmail 1.03 from Dave Sill's "Life with Qmail" dated July
21, 1999. I am in section # 2.8.2 System Startup Files, and it says to
install a script file I just created "qmail" to launch qmail at boot into my
init.d directory.
The document says it should be in one of the following locations:
/etc/init.d
/etc/rc.d/init.d
/sbin/init.d
I have no such directory on my system. (Slackware 3.6)
It appears that Slackware uses /etc/rc.d for the initialization files. I
think the qmail script file that will start qmail on boot should be located
here? Can anyone verify this for me?
II). Should I Chmod this file for X execute privledges? The document didn't
say.
III). I looked over the script and it references several files and
subdirectories that don't exist. I have not received any errors in the
install up to this point.
I have attached the script file, and have put directories and files that
don't exist here in (file/dir) (parenthesis)..
case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting qmail: qmail-send"
supervise /var/(supervise)/qmail/send /var/qmail/rc | ****** I don't
have supervise directory
setuser (qmaill) cyclog /var/log/qmail & ****** Is
qmaill a typo, or variable of somekind?
echo -n " qmail-smtpd"
supervise /var/supervise/qmail/smtpd tcpserver -v -x/etc/(tcp.smtp.cdb)
\ ** This file doesn't exist.
-u$QMAILDUID -g$NOFILESGID 0 smtp \
/var/qmail/bin/(qmail-smtpd-wrapper) 2>&1 | setuser qmaill accustamp
| \ ** I have qmail-smtpd but no wrapper.
setuser qmaill cyclog /var/log/qmail/(smtpd &) ***********
I have a qmail-smtpd file here.
I'm a bit confused here!
I am running Slackware 3.6 on Kernel 2.0.35 on a 486/66Dx with 32Meg Ram. I
have two NICS, both setup and working. I can ping local network and
internet by name or IP address. I have the Samba Server 1.9.18p10 running.
Everything working fine.
I am going to continue with the install, and hope I don't hose anything, but
I just don't think its going to work.
ANY COMMENTS WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.
TIA
MarkT.
qmail
