> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rodrigo Severo [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, October 15, 1999 2:36 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Qmail died!!! Help!
>
> Hi,
>
>
> I have installed Qmail on my company 2 or 3 weeks ago. I installed
> qmail with Nick Leverton's patch for qmail-send for remote delivery
> control and with Christopher K. Davis's patch to accept oversize DNS
> packets. Everything was going just fine.
>
> Today I decided to create a few scripts to start and stop qmail
> remote
> delivery when my dial-up connection came up and down. Before that I was
> halting the computer every night.
>
> AFAIK I have just created a few extra scripts that would be called
> by
> cron. Obviously I must have done something else...
>
> My problem is that qmail - as called by the rc script - doesn't runs
> anymore.
>
> I tried 'strace /var/qmail/rc' and just at the end of it I saw
> qmail-start trying to call qmail-send and getting a 'Permission denied'
> error. I runned ./instcheck and it found no problems. Can I have some
> permission problems?
>
> I am sending the whole strace outputs for a 'strace -orc.trace
> /var/qmail/rc' and for a 'strace -oqmail-send.trace qmail-send'. I am
> sending also my dir list of /var/qmail and of /var/qmail/bin. I am
> sending also the rc script I used.
>
> My machine is a Pentium 200mHz with 64MB of RAM and 1.1GB harddisk.
> I
> am running RedHat Linux 6.0.
>
>
> Sorry for the huge attachments but I am in such a hurry to make
> qmail
> work again that I tried to send all necessary info - and probably lots
> of unnecessary also. :(
>
>
>
> A confused to-be network administrator, hungry and helpless,
>
> Rodrigo Severo
>
>
> P.S.: One last piece of info, when I runned 'strace -orc.trace
> /var/qmail/rc' I got the following error message which I don't
> undestand: 'ptrace: umoven: Input/output error'. << File:
> QmailDiedInfo.zip >>
>
Is the script you made owned by root, or at least running as root?
If not there's your problem.
