Here is the script I'm using (straight out of "Life with Qmail"):
#!/bin/sh
PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
export PATH
case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting qmail: svscan"
cd /var/qmail/supervise
nohup env - PATH="$PATH" svscan &
echo $! > /var/run/svscan.pid
echo "."
;;
stop)
echo -n "Stopping qmail: svscan"
kill `cat /var/run/svscan.pid`
echo -n " qmail"
svc -dx /var/qmail/supervise/*
echo -n " logging"
svc -dx /var/qmail/supervise/*/log
echo "."
;;
stat)
cd /var/qmail/supervise
svstat * */log
;;
doqueue|alrm)
echo "Sending ALRM signal to qmail-send."
svc -a /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send
;;
queue)
qmail-qstat
qmail-qread
;;
reload|hup)
echo "Sending HUP signal to qmail-send."
svc -h /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send
;;
pause)
echo "Pausing qmail-send"
svc -p /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send
echo "Pausing qmail-smtpd"
svc -p /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd
;;
cont)
echo "Continuing qmail-send"
svc -c /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send
echo "Continuing qmail-smtpd"
svc -c /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd
;;
restart)
echo "Restarting qmail:"
echo "* Stopping qmail-smtpd."
svc -d /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd
echo "* Sending qmail-send SIGTERM and restarting."
svc -t /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send
echo "* Restarting qmail-smtpd."
svc -u /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd
;;
cdb)
tcprules /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb /etc/tcp.smtp.tmp < /etc/tcp.smtp
chmod 644 /etc/tcp.smtp*
echo "Reloaded /etc/tcp.smtp."
;;
help)
cat <<HELP
stop -- stops mail service (smtp connections refused, nothing goes out)
start -- starts mail service (smtp connection accepted, mail can go out)
pause -- temporarily stops mail service (connections accepted, nothing leaves
cont -- continues paused mail service
stat -- displays status of mail service
cdb -- rebuild the tcpserver cdb file for smtp
restart -- stops and restarts smtp, sends qmail-send a TERM & restarts it
doqueue -- sends qmail-send ALRM, scheduling queued messages for delivery
reload -- sends qmail-send HUP, rereading locals and virtualdomains
queue -- shows status of queue
alrm -- same as doqueue
hup -- same as reload
HELP
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|doqueue|reload|stat|pause|cont|cdb|queu
|help}"
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0
I haven't gotten a handle on qmail logging yet. Where are the log files stored? I look at /var/log/qmail and the files that are there contain these lines:
from /var/log/qmail/current
@400000003b1518da292b19c4 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
from /var/log/qmail/smtpd/current
@400000003b1518da3494b75c tcpserver: status: 0/0
I don't think there is a load balancer problem with SMTP, as there is another mail server running sendmail right beside this one. It's just that it was setup by somebody else, who no longer works here, and I'm much more a fan of qmail than I am of sendmail, so we're moving forward with qmail installs now.
If I can provide any further information to you, please let me know.
Thanks,
Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Cazabon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 12:19
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: SMTP doesn't respond
Mark Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The server is using a private ip address (192.168.x.x) behind a load
> balancer. The load balancer runs NAT so the server can send data out. The
> load balancer also contains a routable ip address, for which, all traffic
> passes back to the private ip. There is a DNS entry for the routable ip, but
> not for the private ip.
This could be part of the problem.
> The qmail server is setup with the same name as the
> DNS entry for the routable ip. As qmail runs on DNS entries, I would assume
> this would make everything ok. It doesn't. When I telnet to the localhost on
> port 25, I get a connection and it just sits there. No response, ever.
Ever? Or not in the first 60 seconds? Or what?
> Below is the output of qmail-showctl just to make sure I haven't done
> anything wrong. Any suggestions?
This looks good (thanks for including it). What would help would be a copy of
the script you're using to start qmail-smtpd. tcpserver may be trying a
reverse lookup on your IP address and timing out, as well as some other DNS
lookups which happen. They can all be fixed with changes to your qmail-smtpd
script.
Also, are any error messages ending up in the qmail-smtpd log? Does outgoing
mail work? Are there errors in the main qmail log?
I've tried to telnet to the SMTP port myself (thanks for using real DNS
information and not obscuring it), and you seem to be correct -- I've got a
connection, but not the welcome banner, even after several minutes. If it's a
problem with your qmail-smtpd script, there should be errors in the log from
the tcpserver instance for it. Another possibility, I suppose, is that the
load balancer is somehow broken in regards to SMTP?
Charles
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