On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, [iso-8859-1] Jean-Pierre H. Dumas wrote:
> I have a POP toaster, and I did a complete backup of /
> with tar. (this includes /var/qmail...)
> I setup a new FreeBSD 3.2 system, minimal, on another
> computer with
> differing disks (one small IDE rather than a big
> SCSI).
>
> Once the new minimum system boot, I untar my previous
> backup...
>
> I reboot after adjusting the fstab, everything seems
> to come OK but qmail.
> I have this message (on screen during boot, and in the
> /var/log/messages):
> qmail: xxxxxx alert: cannot start: unable to switch to
> queue directory
>
> If I look /var/qmail looks OK to me.
>
> What's wrong ?
> What can I do ?
> What should I do in the future to avoid this problem
> with backed up disks.
> (It has to be tar, and can be restored on volumes with
> differing size)
>
> Thank you in advance.
> Jean-Pierre Dumas
>
> P.S. I did not subscribe to the qmail list, please
> cc me.
How about permissions? Go to your qmail source directory and run
# make setup check
That should fix things up.
Vince.
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