On Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 10:18:37PM -0800, Anonymous Individual wrote:
> Would it make sense if someone added a small
> item in the faq showing the correct way to
> run tcpserver in conjunction with qmail-start.
You don't "run tcpserver in conjunction with qmail-start." They're two separate
processes that don't care about each other, any more than sendmail cares
whether you're running a POP server.
> Why bother supporting qmail when such basic
> questions go unanswered ?
I don't recall the question ever coming up.
> Please don't misunderstand, I love qmail and
> respect answers on this mailing list. We all
> have to learn to assume less and less & express
> ourselves better!
>
> I consider myself a newbie with qmail and
> have spent hours trying to read this mailing
> list. Not a single individual has spelled
> out a simple way of doing this ?
>
> OK, so how does one run these two commands.
> Say, if I have freebsd, can I put these commands
> in /etc/rc.local ? IN WHAT ORDER ? WHY ?
The order doesn't matter, and start them from wherever one starts things on
your system.
> if [ -f /usr/local/bin/tcpserver ]; then
> echo "Starting Qmail (tcpserver) SMTPD...\r"
> /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -Q -u 7791 -g 2108 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
> 2>&1 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3 &
> fi
> #
> # start qmail server
> #
> if [ -f /var/qmail/bin/qmail-start]; then
> /bin/csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc &'
> fi
Chris
