What's the $PATH set to for the user who built qmail? On solaris having
/usr/ucb before /usr/ccs/bin is fatal to qmail (and most other software).
What you're seeing is commonly caused by this mistake.
-Peter
On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 06:18:00PM -0000, Robin Bowes wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Matthew Brown [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999, 9:52:26
> > To: Robin Bowes; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: qmail dying on Solaris
> >
> >
> > > I'm having problems with qmail-smtpd dying on my Solaris box.
> > > It is running
> > > under tcpserver/supervise but this doesn't seem to prevent it
> > > from dying and
> > > not restarting.
> >
> > I'd almost bet money here that what you're doing is running qmail
> without
> > protecting it from SIGHUP, and when you log out everything dies. I had
>
> > this happen myself, with similar symptoms. When you find this has
> happened, is
> > EVERY daemon dead?
>
> I don't think this is the problem. If the server is re-booted and all
> the daemons come up "normally" then I still experience the problem. I
> just tested by stopping qmail-smtpd then re-running it from the .init
> file then logging out. Observing form another console, I can see the the
> daemon did not die when I logged out.
>
> > qmail is NOT like every other daemon out there. It does NOT catch
> SIGHUP.
> > On Solaris, if you don't launch qmail under csh or under nohup, it will
> die
> > when you log out.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion anyway.
>
> R.
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