On Wednesday 02 February 2005 18:10, Claudio Jeker shaped the electrons to say: > On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 05:54:10PM +0200, Scott Ryan wrote: > > I am having a really annoying problem trying to start qmail. I have > > checked the permissions against 7 other identical qmail servers, but I > > get the error: > > > > alert: cannot start: unable to switch to queue directory. > > > > If i change the queue dir to 755, I then get: > > > > alert: cannot start: unable to open mutex > > > > /var/qmail/queue is > > # ls -lad queue/ > > drwxr-x--- 11 qmailq qmail 4096 Feb 2 16:03 queue/ > > /var/qmail is > > # ls -lad qmail/ > > drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Feb 2 16:04 qmail/ > > > > In the queue dir I have: > > # ls -la > > total 44 > > drwxr-x--- 11 qmailq qmail 4096 Feb 2 16:03 . > > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 2 16:03 .. > > drwx------ 2 qmails qmail 4096 Feb 1 14:50 bounce > > drwx------ 25 qmails qmail 4096 Feb 2 16:03 info > > drwx------ 25 qmailq qmail 4096 Feb 2 16:03 intd > > drwx------ 25 qmails qmail 4096 Feb 2 16:03 local > > drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Feb 2 16:03 lock > > drwxr-x--- 25 qmailq qmail 4096 Feb 2 16:03 mess > > drwx------ 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Feb 1 14:50 pid > > drwx------ 25 qmails qmail 4096 Feb 2 16:03 remote > > drwxr-x--- 25 qmailq qmail 4096 Feb 2 16:03 todo > > > > Any have any ideas what else I can try? > > You need to pay attention to the uids. qmail uses hardcoded uid numbers(!) > and not the names. So it may be necessary to rebuild with correct ids or > so. Normaly this is the most obvious reason for such an issue.
Yeah, we just noticed that the qmail-ldap RPM we built was built on a host that had different uids than the install host. doh. thanks.
