Hello, all. I have been trying to install qmail on a RedHat 6.2 box, but it
doesn't quite work, and the documentation, FAQs and HOWTOs haven't cleared
things up.
I was using the qmail HOWTO to guide my installation.
<http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html> Everything went fine, no
errors. I chose Maildir over mbox. Then I got to step 11. While starting
/etc/rc.d/init.d/svscan (where I put the script) did start all the qmail
processes there were still two problems:
1. echo to: username | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject did nothing.
2. there was nothing in /var/log/maillog (the mail log specified in
/etc/syslog.conf)
Then I stumbled across the fact that I needed .qmail files in the home
directories of users that intended to get mail, so I added those. They are
properly chowned and each contains only "./Maildir/".
I also tried a suggestion that I found in the archives of this list: I added
/var/qmail/bin to my path, and I executed 'qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger
qmail &'.
Now #1 above works just fine, and username receives the mail in
~username/Maildir/new/. However, I still don't have any messages at all
about qmail in maillog (startup, mail sent, nothing), or in the rest of
/var/log/* for that matter.
A couple of other things:
*) LWQ, in step 2.8.5, mentions that I should use '/usr/local/sbin/qmail
start' to start qmail. But I don't have anything named qmail in
/usr/local/sbin/. Is this something one would use instead of services?
*) I started qmail with qmail-start after shutting down svscan. (I tried to
start svscan after that, but all I got was an error in maillog -- the only
thing printed in that file.) Before, I could stop the bevy of qmail
processes by typing '/etc/rc.d/init.d/svscan stop'. However, there is no
qmail-stop. How do I stop the processes properly? And if I'm not going to be
using svscan, how should I set up qmail to start at boot time? Just a script
w/ 'qmail-start' et al in /etc/rc.d/init.d/ with a corresponding link in
rc3.d?
Thanks for any suggestions you can provide!
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Nick Kocharhook -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
