Pr�spero, Esteban wrote:
>I've just installed qmail 1.03 in a Solaris 2.6 server. I followed every
>step from "Life with qmail"
I've heard that before... :-)
>but when I try to start qmail, something goes
>wrong: qmail-start daemon never starts.
There's no "qmail-start" daemon. qmail-start starts qmail-send. Is
qmail-send running? What does "qmail stat" say?
>It's called from the run script
>invoked in /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send, /var/qmail/rc which looks like:
>
>#!/bin/sh
>
># Using splogger to send the log through syslog.
># Using qmail-local to deliver messages to ~/Maildir by default.
>
>exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail
Which is *not* the /var/qmail/rc script from LWQ.
>I tried with a svstat and it's always attempting to start qmail-send
>(qmail-start daemon), but it always fails.
With what error message?
>Nothing is stored in /var/log/syslog, so I don't know what's really going
>on.
In a proper LWQ installation, syslog isn't used. In your case, it
should have been used.
>Have you got any idea of where the problem could be? What steps performs
>qmail-start when starting?
Try running /var/qmail/rc interactively.
-Dave
