You will need to use 'nohup' to start these services. They are being
terminated when the shell they are started from closes.
Here is the line I use to start qmail under the same OS:
/usr/bin/nohup /var/qmail/rc >> /var/adm/qmail/nohup.out &
On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Jim Arnott wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to qmail and all its utilities.
> I'm using the latest qmail (1.03) and Digital Unix 4.0
>
> Has anyone run into a problem where supervise does not start or stay
> running
> (nor start any sw that it should start) when a system is coming up
> during boot. See the script below.
>
> I also had the same problem with starting tclserver from an rc3.d
> script. Qmail-send would start fine, but
> only if I start it without supervise.
>
> After I boot and do a ps -aef, no qmail or supervisor processes have
> started. When I start this script by
> hand (as root) it works fine.
>
> Also, I get the correct comments from the echos on the monitor upon
> bootup, so I know the script is running and
> executing the supervise programs.
>
> I do not get any error messages.
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Jim Arnott
> Bridge Info Sys
>
> #cd /sbin/rc3.d
> #ls -lg S99qmailstart
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root bin 20 Jul 6 07:29 S99qmailstart ->
> ../init.d/qmailstart
> #ls -lg ../init.d/qmailstart
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 1710 Jul 7 01:45
> ../init.d/qmailstart
> #cat ../init.d/qmailstart
> #!/sbin/sh
>
> NAME=qmail
> SUPERVISE=/usr/local/bin/supervise
> ACCUSTAMP=/usr/local/bin/accustamp
> CYCLOG=/usr/local/bin/cyclog
> SETUSER=/usr/local/bin/setuser
> SVC=/usr/local/bin/svc
>
> ECHO=/bin/echo
> QMAILDIR=/var/qmail
> PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:$QMAILDIR/bin
> CMD_ENV=bsd
> export CMD_ENV PATH
>
> QMAILDUID=606
> NOFILESGID=600
>
> set -e
>
> case "$1" in
> start)
> set `who -r`
> if [ $9 = "S" ]; then
> $ECHO -n "Starting qmail: "
> $ECHO -n "(qmail persistent daemons) "
> $SUPERVISE $QMAILDIR/supervise/qmail-send env -
> \
> PATH="$QMAILDIR/bin:$PATH" qmail-start ./Mailbox
> $ACCUSTAMP | $SETUSER qmaill $CYCLOG /var/log/qmail &
> $ECHO -n "(qmail-smtpd via tcpserver) "
> $SUPERVISE $QMAILDIR/supervise/tcpserver-qmail \
>
> /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -u $QMAILDUID -g
> $NOFILESGID 0 smtp \
> $QMAILDIR/bin/qmail-smtpd &
> $ECHO .
> fi
> ;;
> stop)
> $ECHO -n "Stopping qmail: "
> $ECHO -n "(qmail-smtpd via tcpserver) "
> $SVC -dx $QMAILDIR/supervise/tcpserver-qmail
> $ECHO -n "(qmail persistent daemons) "
> $SVC -dx $QMAILDIR/supervise/qmail-send
> $ECHO .
> ;;
> alrm)
> $ECHO "Sending ALRM signal to qmail-send."
> $SVC -a $QMAILDIR/supervise/qmail-send
> ;;
> hup)
> $ECHO "Sending HUP signal to qmail-send."
> $SVC -h $QMAILDIR/supervise/qmail-send
> ;;
> restart)
> $ECHO "Restarting qmail:"
> $ECHO "* Stopping qmail-smtpd via tcpserver."
> $SVC -d $QMAILDIR/supervise/tcpserver-qmail
> $ECHO "* Sending qmail-send SIGTERM and
> restarting."
> $SVC -t $QMAILDIR/supervise/qmail-send
> $ECHO "* Restarting qmail-smtpd via
> tcpserver."
> $SVC -u $QMAILDIR/supervise/tcpserver-qmail
> ;;
> *)
> $ECHO "Usage: /etc/init.d/$NAME
> {start|stop|restart|alrm|hup}"
> exit 1
> ;;
> esac
>
> exit 0
>
>
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