Scott Gregson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> As you can see it looks as if I got something running at 3:00 this
> morning. But I cannot get qmailctl to do anything - I get the typical
> permissions problem - permission denied... (same for the other files I
> tried in /var/qmail/bin).
That's not typical by any means. Most of the qmail binaries can be
invoked by any user, although there's no point in running some of them.
> I can no longer send mail locally either - I don't get any complaints
> when I try but it doesn't show up anywhere that I can find it.
The qmail-send logs will log the disposition of every message.
> After much reading and much hacking of permissions (probably a mistake).
> I can't even get qmailctl to do anything even if I am in it's directory
> su to root or su to qmail.
This sounds like an error in the script.
> Should I start from scratch?
Likely, yes. Follow "Life with qmail" to the letter, and all should be
fine.
> Just to confirm that things are wrong I just did (while in
> /var/qmail/bin):
> chmod 1755 qmailctl
You're setting the "save text image" flag on the script? Why?
Try not to manually retype any of the scripts -- download them instead,
if possible.
Charles
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