On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 10:29:34PM +0200, Ruprecht Helms wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I seams I have a very serious problem with my qmailinstallation.
> For a short time I've completely trashed my old qmailinstallation and began a
> new setup of qmail.
>
> Starting with the qmailctl-file bring the message that the services could not
> start. When I start qmail with qmail-start splogger qmail I get this result.
Don't use splogger. Syslog should (IMHO) be avoided whenever possible.
Go forth and read Life With qmail -- http://www.lifewithqmail.org/, and
you shall be enlightened. (Hint, you don't run 'qmail-start' from the
command line directly. Neither Dan's old instructions nor LWQ recommend
this, or contain it at all AFAIK.
>
>
> linux:/etc/init.d # ps aux|grep qmail
> qmails 7177 0.3 0.3 1276 424 pts/1 S 22:28 0:00 qmail-send
> qmaill 7178 0.0 0.0 0 0 pts/1 Z 22:28 0:00 [qmail-start
><defunct>]
See above...
> This is the part in the /var/log/messages
>
> Sep 14 20:46:42 linux userdel[4460]: delete user `qmaild'
> Sep 14 20:48:48 linux userdel[4490]: delete user `qmaill'
> Sep 14 20:50:08 linux userdel[4496]: delete user `qmails'
> Sep 14 21:08:13 linux useradd[4603]: new user: name=qmaild, uid=511, gid=106,
>home=/var/qmail, shell=/bin/bash
Youch! None of qmail's UIDs should have login shells!
> Sep 14 21:10:15 linux usermod[4676]: change user `qmaill' password
Their passwords should not be set either...
Read LWQ and start afresh. You will be much happier. :)
HTH,
GW
