Are you using the "qmailctl" script? If so, take a look in there for where the logs are being pointed to. Then check those locations to make sure they exist (and watch for any symbolic links).
Also, if you run "qmailctl cdb", it might catch the log directory settings from your /etc/tcp.smtp file. If I had to guess, it would appear that the /service/qmail-smtpd/log folder/file doesn't have the proper permissions set up. Does it exist? if so, does it allow access to the qmail acount? And lastly, have you tried to cut and past the error into Google and see what comes up? I had to do that with a couple obscure things I was having problems with when setting up qmail-scanner. Here's a couple links to help get you started: http://citadelle.intrinsec.com/mailing/current/HTML/ml_qmail/22821.html (this one might solve your problem) http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=svc%3A+warning%3A+unable+to+control+%2Fservice%2Fqmail-smtpd%2Flog%3A+file+does+not+exist&btnG=Google+Search&meta= Hope that helps some. Shawn -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Doug Boyd Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 4:21 PM To: CLUG General Subject: Re: [clug-talk] qmail install issues for a newbie On Wednesday 25 August 2004 04:04, timmy wrote: > Check out the error message: > > svc: warning: unable to control /service/qmail-smtpd/log: file does not > exist > > Looks like you forgot to create that log directory. Go bac to the section > where you create the run/ and log/ directores, make sure you created them > all properly. > > tim > Yup, studied them till they're blurry. more /service/qmail-smtpd/run #!/bin/sh QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild` NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` MAXSMTPD=`cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming` LOCAL=`head -1 /var/qmail/control/me` if [ -z "$QMAILDUID" -o -z "$NOFILESGID" -o -z "$MAXSMTPD" -o -z "$LOCAL" ]; then echo QMAILDUID, NOFILESGID, MAXSMTPD, or LOCAL is unset in echo /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run exit 1 fi if [ ! -f /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts ]; then echo "No /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts!" echo "Refusing to start SMTP listener because it'll create an open relay" exit 1 fi exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 2000000 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -l "$LOCAL" -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c "$MAXSMTPD" \ -u "$QMAILDUID" -g "$NOFILESGID" 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 more /service/qmail-smtpd/log/run #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail/ smtpd Not sure what 'unable to control' means. I believe the owners are correct. And even with the error I get the daemons runnings so I'd expect to at least send mail to localhost or something, but no luck. Thanks for taking a look. Doug _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
