I'm building a new toaster to replace an old toaster. New machine is on Fedora Core. The biggest twist is that the old machine has different uid for vopmail, vchkpw and I want them the same.

I get to the poing where its time to check qmail. qmail-send complains that " cannot start: unable to read controls".

[EMAIL PROTECTED] src]# ls -al /var/qmail/control/
total 36
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     qmail        4096 Mar  1 20:00 .
drwxr-xr-x   11 root     qmail        4096 Mar  1 19:26 ..
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           33 Mar  1 19:23 clientcert.pem -> /var/qmail/control/servercert.pem
-rw-r--r--    1 root     qmail           3 Mar  1 19:27 concurrencyincoming
-rw-r--r--    1 root     qmail          11 Mar  1 19:25 defaultdelivery
-rw-r--r--    1 vpopmail qmail         245 Mar  1 19:23 dh1024.pem
-rw-r--r--    1 vpopmail qmail         156 Mar  1 19:23 dh512.pem
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            2 Mar  1 20:00 mfcheck
-rw-r--r--    1 root     qmail         497 Mar  1 19:23 rsa512.pem
-rw-r--r--    1 root     qmail        2250 Mar  1 19:23 servercert.pem

This looks like anyone can read the control files.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] src]# cat /service/qmail-send/run
#!/bin/sh
exec /var/qmail/rc

[EMAIL PROTECTED] src]# cat /var/qmail/rc
#!/bin/sh

# Using stdout for logging
# Using control/defaultdelivery from qmail-local to deliver messages by default

exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \
qmail-start "`cat /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery`"

What do I do next?

Pat Walsh

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