- Samuel Dries-Daffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
| Also I tried the ./inst check and got the following error:
| ella 31# ./instcheck
| instcheck: fatal: instcheck: usage: instcheck dir
|
| Which dir should I tell it to check (and what does this program do?)
./instcheck /var/qmail
checks that all the files and directories made by the qmail
installation exist and have the right ownerships and modes.
- Mate Wierdl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
| No, he probably has an older qmail running.
Yes, only the 1.02 instcheck requires an argument.
- Samuel Dries-Daffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
| We use /var/mail setup, but we have mapped it to /usr/mail since our
| partition on / was not big enough.
| [...]
| We use the following to start qmail from our startup script:
|
| ======
| nice -20 env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" qmail-start ./Mailbox
| splogger qmail &
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That does not deliver to /var/mail or /usr/mail, but to users' home
dir -- unless, of course, the users themselves specify some other
delivery method in their .qmail files.
In a word, I am getting more confused the more you explain your setup.
| A look at syslog.mail gives lots (and lots!) of these types of errors, but
| I can't tell how they might relate to missing mail.
|
| Jan 4 20:02:26 4C:ella qmail: 915480146.854383 warning: trouble opening
| remote/17/6526; will try again later
| Jan 4 20:04:30 4C:ella qmail: 915480270.468809 warning: trouble opening
| remote/18/9954; will try again later
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That looks like the queue got mangled at some point. I seem to
remember there is a script on http://www.qmail.org/ to fix broken
queues; you may wish to use it. But I don't think it is related to
your other problem.
| This is a system that I inherited...not one that I installed qmail
| on. It is possible that there was an error in the initial
| installation (we're using 1.01) but we did not have this problem
| until we recently upgraded to IRIX 6.5 from 5.3.
Do your users access their mail over NFS? If so, the problem could be
related to locking. File locking over NFS is an uphill battle at
best.
- Harald
