on 3/21/01 9:39 AM, Dave Sill at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> He said he's following the HOWTO, which logs to /var/log/qmail using
> multilog.
Wow! You're right. Looks like I should have done 'ls /var/log' instead of
'rgrep qmail /var/log/*'. ;-)
>>> 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.
>
> No, you don't need .qmail unless you want to override the system
> default delivery method.
All right. If I don't need .qmail files in users' directories, why is it
that mail wasn't being delivered without them?
>> I think thats wrong. The .qmail-files have to be placed under
>> /var/qmail/alias. The must be named like .qmail-user for example
>
> No, these are real users, not aliases.
OK, thanks for clearing that up -- I've already got some aliases in that dir
(e.g. .qmail-postmaster).
>>> *) I started qmail with qmail-start after shutting down svscan. (I tried to
>>> start svscan after that,
>>
>> The qmailscanner have a bug.
>
> This has nothing whatsoever to do with qmail-scanner.
Good. But how do I shut it down? (See my original message.)
> -Dave
Maybe what Shirish said is true: "If you follow LWQ steps you probably
wouldn't have any problem." :-) Truth be told, I was going to use LWQ, but I
didn't remember its name, and I found the qmail HOWTO first. *sigh*
--
Nick Kocharhook -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
