On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 03:13:16PM +1100, Jesse Reynolds wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am having the same problem, where it takes 20 minutes for mail to
> be delivered, whether it's remote to local, local to remote, or local
> to local.
>
> It seems that indeed the permissions on the trigger file are wrong, mine is:
>
> prw------- 1 qmails qmail 0 Oct 23 02:27 /var/qmail/queue/lock/trigger
>
> Now, it has been taking 20 minutes to delever ever since I installed
> it. So presumably my installation didn't work properly, or has bugs
> in it. I'm using the FreeBSD ports collection to install qmail.
I used the FreeBSD port on FreeBSD 3.3 and my perms were set correctly.
This might be a bug in a later version of the port. I'd send a note to
the ports mailing list and CC the maintainer of the qmail port.
> I am confused about Magnus's suggestion on how to fix it, ie do a
> "make setup" from the qmail source. Would it not be enough to
> manually fix the permissions with chmod?
I don't know about this, but I suspect you are correct.
> If I cd to /usr/ports/mail/qmail and do "make setup" it response with
> "don't know how to make setup".
You would have to run "make extract" in /usr/ports/mail/qmail, then cd
to work/qmail-1.03 and run the "make setup". The ports collection has
its own set of makefiles that create a subdirectory tree and run the
actual software's make. The ports make system doesn't understand the
setup or check targets.
> Cheers
>
> Jesse
>
> PS, this would be an excellent thing to have in the FAQ! It seems
> many people are having this problem.
True.
-thl
