On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 04:35:15PM +0100, Jonathan Fanti 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 qmail 4096 Sep 26 17:55 /var/qmail
> drw-r--r-- 2 qmaill qmail 4096 Sep 25 17:03
> /var/qmail/control
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11 Sep 25 16:47
> /var/qmail/control/boun$
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8 Sep 25 16:51
> /var/qmail/control/data$
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16 Sep 26 09:34
> /var/qmail/control/defa$
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16 Sep 26 09:34
> /var/qmail/control/defa$
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16 Sep 25 16:53
> /var/qmail/control/doub$
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11 Sep 25 16:53
> /var/qmail/control/doub$
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16 Sep 25 16:55
> /var/qmail/control/helo$
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 92 Sep 26 09:59
> /var/qmail/control/loca$
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16 Sep 25 17:50
> /var/qmail/control/me
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11 Sep 25 17:50
> /var/qmail/control/plus$
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 94 Sep 26 09:59
> /var/qmail/control/rcpt$
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49 Sep 25 16:44
> /var/qmail/control/smpt$
>
> Okay, so I couldn't copy it all,
But you should. You may have missed the very entry that's causing the problem. Charles
specifically asked for all the output. He did that for a reason. Since you don't know
what is wrong, how can you know which information is superflous?
> but you get the idea ;]
No we don't. Now we have to go thru this whole process again.
>
> I see where this is going, I think that maybe qmail has to have
> ownership of all the directories heading down to the control files? Am I
> on the right road?
No. qmail only needs to be able to read those controls. That can be thru a variety
of permission strategies. I would actually discourage ownership by any of the qmail
uids and instead leave it similar to what you have.
How about running qmail-showctl and showing us all of the output?
How about running ls -l /var/qmail/controls and showing 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: unable to read controls!"
> > >
> > > This might be a silly question, but I have checked and I do have all the
> > > required files in my /var/qmail/control dir.
> >
> > Are you sure? If there wasn't a problem, you wouldn't see this error. What is
> > the output of
> > `ls -ld / /var /var/qmail /var/qmail/control /var/qmail/control/*` ?
> >
> > Charles
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