I'am getting crazy to find the reason why my qmail refuses to start.
Note that just yesterday it worked perfectly!
I get this error:
Apr 3 17:25:31 linux qmail: 986311531.554850 alert: cannot start: unable to
read controls
and I suspect to have changed something about files permissions into /var/qmail
that actually is structured as follow:
[root@linux qmail]# ls -la
totale 64
drwxr-xr-x 10 root qmail 4096 feb 2 19:22 .
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 mar 22 00:26 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 qmails qmail 24 feb 2 19:07 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 qmails qmail 230 feb 2 19:07 .bash_profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 qmails qmail 124 feb 2 19:07 .bashrc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 qmails qmail 333 feb 2 19:07 .emacs
-rw-r--r-- 1 qmails qmail 3394 feb 2 19:07 .screenrc
drwxr-sr-x 2 alias qmail 4096 apr 3 06:06 alias
drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail 4096 feb 2 19:14 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail 4096 feb 2 19:14 boot
drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail 4096 mar 28 05:41 control
drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail 4096 feb 2 19:14 doc
drwxr-xr-x 10 root qmail 4096 feb 2 19:14 man
drwxr-x--- 11 qmailq qmail 4096 feb 2 19:14 queue
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 204 feb 2 19:22 rc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail 4096 feb 2 19:14 users
While alias as follow:
[root@linux alias]# ls -la
totale 56
drwxr-sr-x 2 alias qmail 4096 apr 3 06:06 .
drwxr-xr-x 10 root qmail 4096 feb 2 19:22 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root nofiles 24 feb 2 19:07 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 root nofiles 230 feb 2 19:07 .bash_profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root nofiles 124 feb 2 19:07 .bashrc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root nofiles 333 feb 2 19:07 .emacs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 0 apr 3 07:35 .qmail-mailer-daemon
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 0 apr 3 07:35 .qmail-postmaster
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 0 apr 3 07:35 .qmail-root
-rw-r--r-- 1 root nofiles 3394 feb 2 19:07 .screenrc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 28296 mar 28 06:20 Mailbox
And at last control contains:
[root@linux control]# ls -la
totale 44
drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail 4096 mar 28 05:41 .
drwxr-xr-x 10 root qmail 4096 feb 2 19:22 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 14 mar 28 06:49 badmailfrom
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 0 mar 28 05:41 databytes
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 9 apr 3 06:33 defaultdelivery
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 16 apr 3 07:22 defaultdomain
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 21 mar 28 05:41 defaulthost
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 44 apr 3 07:22 locals
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 22 apr 3 07:22 me
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 9 apr 3 07:22 plusdomain
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 530 apr 3 07:22 rcpthosts
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 30 feb 2 20:53 smtproutes
-rw------- 1 root qmail 0 apr 3 03:14 virtualdomains
Using ./qmail-showctl,I get:
[ik5bcu@linux bin]$ ./qmail-showctl
qmail home directory: /var/qmail.
user-ext delimiter: -.
paternalism (in decimal): 2.
silent concurrency limit: 120.
subdirectory split: 23.
user ids: 501, 502, 503, 0, 504, 505, 506, 507.
group ids: 501, 502.
badmailfrom:
unknown not accepted in MAIL FROM.
nobody not accepted in MAIL FROM.
bouncefrom: (Default.) Bounce user name is MAILER-DAEMON.
bouncehost: (Default.) Bounce host name is linux.ik5bcu.ampr.org.
concurrencylocal: (Default.) Local concurrency is 10.
concurrencyremote: (Default.) Remote concurrency is 20.
databytes: (Default.) SMTP DATA limit is 0 bytes.
defaultdomain: Default domain name is ik5bcu.ampr.org.
defaulthost: Default host name is linux.ik5bcu.ampr.org.
doublebouncehost: (Default.) 2B recipient host: linux.ik5bcu.ampr.org.
doublebounceto: (Default.) 2B recipient user: postmaster.
envnoathost: (Default.) Presumed domain name is linux.ik5bcu.ampr.org.
helohost: (Default.) SMTP client HELO host name is linux.ik5bcu.ampr.org.
idhost: (Default.) Message-ID host name is linux.ik5bcu.ampr.org.
localiphost: (Default.) Local IP address becomes linux.ik5bcu.ampr.org.
locals:
Messages for linux.ik5bcu.ampr.org are delivered locally.
Messages for linux.ik5bcu.ampr.org are delivered locally.
me: My name is linux.ik5bcu.ampr.org.
percenthack: (Default.) The percent hack is not allowed.
plusdomain: Plus domain name is ampr.org.
qmqpservers: (Default.) No QMQP servers.
queuelifetime: (Default.) Message lifetime in the queue is 604800 seconds.
rcpthosts:
SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at linux.ik5bcu.ampr.org.
morercpthosts.cdb: (Default.) No effect.
smtpgreeting: (Default.) SMTP greeting: 220 linux.ik5bcu.ampr.org.
smtproutes:
SMTP route: ik5bcu.ampr.org:44.134.210.32
timeoutconnect: (Default.) SMTP client connection timeout is 60 seconds.
timeoutremote: (Default.) SMTP client data timeout is 1200 seconds.
timeoutsmtpd: (Default.) SMTP server data timeout is 1200 seconds.
virtualdomains: Oops! Trouble reading this file.
defaultdelivery: I have no idea what this file does.
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Regards,: Marco Calistri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
gpg key available on http://www.qsl.net/ik5bcu
Xfmail 1.4.7p2 on linux RedHat 6.2
