Excuse me while I go bang my head against the wall. OK, there
now that that's over with....has anyone else had trouble
installing qmail on Mandrake 8?
I'm following the instructions to the letter and the darn thing
won't install. I'd much rather find the reason for it and fix
it than install an older version of the operating system, which
can present other issues.
-Steve
> I am also new at this and the first thing I had to do
> was stop using linuxconf. Linuxconf seems to have a
> mind of its own and it will regularly change ownership
> based on its own set of rules. BTW, I don't know
> exactly why. The second thing I did was rebuild my
> machine with Mandrake 7.2 (from 8.0)
>
> I had all kinds of trouble with mandrake 8 in all
> different apps.
>
> So far with mandrake 7.2 back online all my installs
> have been clean.
>
> I use the command line mostly and webmin to look at
> users and groups...
>
> Tina
>
>
> --- Steve Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Well I think I may have located the source of the
> > trouble but
> > it's still puzzling. Both the Life With Qmail and
> > the Running
> > qmail book want the /var/qmail directory created
> > while logged in
> > as root. That gives ownership to the user root in
> > the group
> > root. Then, the qmail-specific groups and users are
> > added. The
> > problem is that when I run linuxconf and look at the
> > created
> > users, I receive a warning that the home directory
> > of /var/qmail
> > has an invalid owner and group. Could this be the
> > cause of my
> > problems? I'm not exactly a newbie to file and
> > directory
> > permissions, but in reading all the qmail
> > documentation I can
> > lay my hands on I see nothing that indicates I need
> > to change
> > the ownership and group of /var/qmail from
> > root/root.
> > Nevertheless, linuxconf is whining and my compile
> > goes nowhere,
> > and this all smells like a permissions issue.
> >
> > I'm running Mandrake 8.
> >
> > Thanks for your patient help.
> >
> > Steve.
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 02:43:15PM +1200, Steve
> > Reed wrote:
> > > > So, I'm stumped. Why is config (or config-fast)
> > unhappy?
> > >
> > > Because it's expecting dirs and stuff in
> > /var/qmail that
> > aren't there.
> > >
> > > Run "strings - install | grep /" and look for a
> > fully-
> > qualified path
> > > (ie. starting with a slash) that doesn't look
> > system-related.
> > In your
> > > case, since you didn't change conf-qmail, you
> > should
> > see /var/qmail.
> > > If you see something else instead, that's where
> > all your qmail
> > stuff got
> > > installed -- all you gotta do is figure out why it
> > went
> > there. 8-)
> > >
> > > - Adrian
> > >
> >
>
>
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