Hi, this is not a pure vpopmail prob but maybe someone might have advice.. I installed qmail 1.03 vpopmail 4.8.7 ucspi-tcp-0.88 and daemontools-0.70 to setup an qmail/vpopmail mailserver according to the tutorial "life with qmail" Fine. Everything works so far. Nearly everything.. I start and kill the supervise progs with a script from /sbin/init.d 2 probs appear: 1. One supervise process crashes. This ist not serious as all daemons are running but a bit nasty, isnt it? Here is a dump from ps ax: <snipp> 168 ? S 0:00 supervise qmail-send 169 ? S 0:00 supervise log 170 ? S 0:00 supervise qmail-smtpd 171 ? S 0:00 supervise log 173 ? S 4:29 supervise qmail-pop3 ... 4198 ? Z 0:00 [supervise <defunct>] </snipp> Any ideas what went wrong? 2. After killing my daemons with my script i'm unable to restart them as one tcpserver crashes. Here are the relevant lines from /sbin/init.d/qmail <snipp> case "$1" in start) echo -n "Starting qmail: svscan" cd /var/qmail/supervise env - PATH="$PATH" svscan & echo $! > /var/run/svscan.pid echo "." ;; stop) echo -n "Stopping qmail: svscan" kill `cat /var/run/svscan.pid` echo -n " qmail" svc -dx /var/qmail/supervise/* echo -n " logging" svc -dx /var/qmail/supervise/*/log echo "." ;; </snipp> After "qmail stop" all processes (including the one from prob 1) seem to be killed, as non of them appears in "ps ax" But when I restart them using "qmail start" one tcpserver crashes with tcpserver: fatal: unable to bind: address already used Nevertheless are both stmp and pop3 daemons up and accepting connections Here are my supervise/qmail-smtpd/run and supervise/qmail-pop3d/run files <snipp> #!/bin/sh QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild` NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 4000000 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -H -R -l my_host \ -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u $QMAILDUID -g $NOFILESGID 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 </snipp> and <snipp> #! /bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -H -R -l my_host 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup my_ip \ /usr/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir & </snipp> Any clues therefor? Thanx in advance Manuel