Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: qmailctl start error

[Eric Shubert]

Those qmail-* directories shouldn't be there. No telling what's 
happening as a result of that. Could be bad things, with owner root and 
sticky bit set.

If this is a new QMT host, I'd start over with a fresh install.

ganlin_liu wrote:
[r...@mail ~]# ll /var/qmail/supervise
total 52
drwx-----T 5 qmaill qmail 4096 2010-02-05 17:18 authlib
drwx-----T 4 root   root  4096 2010-02-05 17:07 clamd
drwx-----T 5 qmaill qmail 4096 2010-02-05 17:26 imap4
drwx-----T 5 qmaill qmail 4096 2010-02-05 17:26 imap4-ssl
drwx-----T 4 qmaill qmail 4096 2010-02-05 17:26 pop3
drwx-----T 5 qmaill qmail 4096 2010-02-05 17:26 pop3-ssl
drwxr-xr-t 4 root   root  4096 2010-02-05 21:12 qmail-pop3d
drwxr-xr-t 4 root   root  4096 2010-02-05 21:12 qmail-send
drwxr-xr-t 4 root   root  4096 2010-02-05 21:12 qmail-smtpd
drwx-----T 4 qmaill qmail 4096 2010-02-05 17:12 send
drwx-----T 4 qmaill qmail 4096 2010-02-05 17:12 smtp
drwx-----T 4 qmaill qmail 4096 2010-02-05 18:41 spamd
drwx-----T 4 qmaill qmail 4096 2010-02-05 17:12 submission
 
 
2010-02-09
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ganlin_liu
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*发件人：* Eric Shubert
*发送时间：* 2010-02-09  09:41:57
*收件人：* qmailtoaster-list
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*主题：* Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: qmailctl start error
Those look ok.
What do you get from
# ll /var/qmail/supervise
?
ganlin_liu wrote:
 > hello all,Thank your kind help!
 > i saw permission for that file/folder as below.
 >  
 > [r...@mail src]# ll /var/log/qmail/
 > total 48
 > drwxr-x--- 2 qmaill qmail 4096 2010-02-05 18:57 authlib
 > drwxr-xr-x 2 qmaill qmail 4096 2010-02-05 17:01 clamd
 > drwxr-x--- 2 qmaill qmail 4096 2010-02-05 18:57 imap4
 > drwxr-x--- 2 qmaill qmail 4096 2010-02-05 18:57 imap4-ssl
 > drwxr-x--- 2 qmaill qmail 4096 2010-02-05 18:57 pop3
 > drwxr-xr-x 2 qmaill qmail 4096 2010-02-05 21:11 pop3d
 > drwxr-x--- 2 qmaill qmail 4096 2010-02-05 18:57 pop3-ssl
 > drwxr-x--- 2 qmaill qmail 4096 2010-02-05 18:57 send
 > drwxr-x--- 2 qmaill qmail 4096 2010-02-05 18:57 smtp
 > drwxr-xr-x 2 qmaill qmail 4096 2010-02-05 21:11 smtpd
 > drwxr-xr-x 2 qmaill qmail 4096 2010-02-05 18:57 spamd
 > drwx------ 2 qmaill qmail 4096 2010-02-05 18:57 submission
 > [r...@mail src]# ll /var/log/qmail/submission/
 > total 4
 > -rwxr--r-- 1 qmaill qmail 357 2010-02-05 21:38 current
 > -rw------- 1 qmaill qmail   0 2010-02-05 18:57 lock
 > -rw-r--r-- 1 qmaill qmail   0 2010-02-05 18:57 state
 >  
 >  
 > 2010-02-09
 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > ganlin_liu
 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > *发件人：* Eric Shubert
 > *发送时间：* 2010-02-08  23:37:44
 > *收件人：* qmailtoaster-list
 > *抄送：*
 > *主题：* [qmailtoaster] Re: qmailctl start error
 > PakOgah wrote:
 >  > ganlin_liu wrote:
 >  >> hello all could you please help me ,when i start qmail got error as 
 >  >> below.
 >  >> [r...@mail qmail]#  qmailctl start
 >  >>
 >  >> smultilog: fatal: unable to switch to current directory: access denied
 >  >> multilog: fatal: unable to open directory /var/log/qmail/submission: 
 >  >> access denied
 >  >> ermultilog: fatal: unable to switch to current directory: access denied
 >  >> multilog: fatal: unable to open directory /var/log/qmail/submission: 
 >  >> access denied
 >  >> vicemultilog: fatal: unable to open directory 
 >  >> /var/log/qmail/submission: access denied
 >  >> multilog: fatal: unable to switch to current directory: access denied
 >  >>  qmmultilog: fatal: unable to open directory 
 >  >> /var/log/qmail/submission: access denied
 >  >> multilog: fatal: unable to switch to current directory: access denied
 >  >> ail multilog: fatal: unable to open directory 
 >  >> /var/log/qmail/submission: access denied
 >  >> multilog: fatal: unable to switch to current directory: access denied
 >  >> stopmultilog: fatal: unable to switch to current directory: access denied
 >  >> multilog: fatal: unable to open directory /var/log/qmail/submission: 
 >  >> access denied
 >  >>   
 >  > make sure the permission for that file/folder is correct, this is mine
 >  > 
 >  > [r...@svr-m1 ~]# ll /var/log/qmail/
 >  > total 40
 >  > drwxr-x---  2 qmaill qmail 4096 Feb  2 18:01 authlib
 >  > drwxr-xr-x  2 qmaill qmail 4096 Feb  8 19:35 clamd
 >  > drwxr-x---  2 qmaill qmail 4096 Feb  8 09:47 imap4
 >  > drwxr-x---  2 qmaill qmail 4096 Nov  3  2008 imap4-ssl
 >  > drwxr-x---  2 qmaill qmail 4096 Feb  8 21:33 pop3
 >  > drwxr-x---  2 qmaill qmail 4096 Jan 31 17:21 pop3-ssl
 >  > drwxr-x---  2 qmaill qmail 4096 Feb  8 21:31 send
 >  > drwxr-x---  2 qmaill qmail 4096 Feb  8 22:03 smtp
 >  > drwxr-xr-x  2 qmaill qmail 4096 Feb  8 21:31 spamd
 >  > drwx------  2 qmaill qmail 4096 Jan 31 17:21 submission
 >  > [r...@svr-m1 ~]# ll /var/log/qmail/submission/
 >  > total 8
 >  > -rwxr--r--  1 qmaill qmail 3586 Jan 31 17:21 @400000004b6559c10b784d5c.s
 >  > -rw-r--r--  1 qmaill qmail  402 Feb  5 18:07 current
 >  > -rw-------  1 qmaill qmail    0 Jan 17  2007 lock
 >  > -rw-r--r--  1 qmaill qmail    0 Nov  3  2008 state
 >  > 
 >  > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 > I saw the same problem on a QMT last week. Permissions were not correct 
 > on these files. ganlin_liu, what do you have for permissions on these? 
 > On the system I saw, the problem was more widespread than just these 
 > folders. I'm not sure exactly how the problem happened, but it involved 
 > named. (djbdns fans can keep quiet - it was caused by the sysadmin). ;)
 > -- 
 > -Eric 'shubes'
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