Re: [vchkpw] Re: qmail+vpopmail on redhat 7.3 server gets very busy
I changed root /var/spool/cron/ to /home/vpopmail/bin/clearopensmtp 21 /dev/null Do you still get the error message? If you are still getting the same error message, maybe you need to restart the cron service for the changes to be effective. No more error messages. Thank you All, Sam
Re: [vchkpw] Re: qmail+vpopmail on redhat 7.3 server gets very busy
Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/vpopmail/bin/clearopensmtp 2$1 /dev/null Body: /bin/sh: $1: ambiguous redirect How can I fix this error in redirect? change the 2$1 to 21, as it should be. How do you edit clearopensmtp to change the 2$1 to 21 ? man sh will explain this in more detail. man sh is not working. How to tell the man command where to look to find man pages fro sh? Thanks a lot, Sam
Re: [vchkpw] Re: qmail+vpopmail on redhat 7.3 server gets very busy
Sam wrote: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/vpopmail/bin/clearopensmtp 2$1 /dev/null Body: /bin/sh: $1: ambiguous redirect How can I fix this error in redirect? change the 2$1 to 21, as it should be. How do you edit clearopensmtp to change the 2$1 to 21 ? probably by running 'crontab -e' as root: the redirect is not in the clearopensmtp command, but in the command that the cronjob is running. Actually, replace the command run by cron with: /home/vpopmail/bin/clearopensmtp 21 /dev/null since the one that is running in your server is missing the redirect from STDOUT to /dev/null. man sh will explain this in more detail. man sh is not working. How to tell the man command where to look to find man pages fro sh? with the MANPATH env variable, but the 'sh' manpage should be there.. what OS are you running? What error do you get when you run 'man sh'? hope this helps, -- Alberto Brealey Guzmán [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [vchkpw] Re: qmail+vpopmail on redhat 7.3 server gets very busy
I changed root /var/spool/cron/ to /home/vpopmail/bin/clearopensmtp 21 /dev/null I am using redhat 7.3 and I get: No manual entry for sh When I run the command: man sh Thanks, Sam - Original Message - From: Alberto Brealey Guzmán [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 11:18 AM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] Re: qmail+vpopmail on redhat 7.3 server gets very busy Sam wrote: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/vpopmail/bin/clearopensmtp 2$1 /dev/null Body: /bin/sh: $1: ambiguous redirect How can I fix this error in redirect? change the 2$1 to 21, as it should be. How do you edit clearopensmtp to change the 2$1 to 21 ? probably by running 'crontab -e' as root: the redirect is not in the clearopensmtp command, but in the command that the cronjob is running. Actually, replace the command run by cron with: /home/vpopmail/bin/clearopensmtp 21 /dev/null since the one that is running in your server is missing the redirect from STDOUT to /dev/null. man sh will explain this in more detail. man sh is not working. How to tell the man command where to look to find man pages fro sh? with the MANPATH env variable, but the 'sh' manpage should be there.. what OS are you running? What error do you get when you run 'man sh'? hope this helps, -- Alberto Brealey Guzmán [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [vchkpw] Re: qmail+vpopmail on redhat 7.3 server gets very busy
Sam wrote: I changed root /var/spool/cron/ to /home/vpopmail/bin/clearopensmtp 21 /dev/null Do you still get the error message? If you are still getting the same error message, maybe you need to restart the cron service for the changes to be effective. I am using redhat 7.3 and I get: No manual entry for sh When I run the command: man sh perhaps you need to install a -doc package... I haven't used Red Hat in a long long time :) Or, if you are using bash, then do a 'man bash' instead, or 'man csh' if that's the shell you are using for root. -- Alberto Brealey Guzmán [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [vchkpw] Re: qmail+vpopmail on redhat 7.3 server gets very busy
On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 19:04 -0500, Sam wrote: Adrew, This is what I typed: echo # /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-doublebounce Just curious to know why it didn't create the .qmail-doublebounce file with # in the file. Because you should have typed echo # /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-doublebounce Everything after the # would have been eval'd as a comment. Shane
Re: [vchkpw] Re: qmail+vpopmail on redhat 7.3 server gets very busy
On Sunday 06 Nov 2005 00:04, Sam wrote: Adrew, This is what I typed: echo # /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-doublebounce Just curious to know why it didn't create the .qmail-doublebounce file with # in the file. echo # /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-doublebounce works echo # /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-doublebounce does not Sam - Original Message - From: Andrew Hodgson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2005 6:43 AM Subject: [vchkpw] Re: qmail+vpopmail on redhat 7.3 server gets very busy On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 22:30:03 -0500, in gmane.mail.vpopmail you wrote: Hi, The command #Echo doublebounce /var/qmail/control/doublebounceto worked. As for the second command #echo # /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-doublebounce Nothing happened. I do not know why, but I installed it using #touch .qmail-doublebounce then I put# and saved. I did wonder whether that command would work - it didn't seem right when I wrote it. I may have had to escape the # character or something. I take it you didn't copy the # character at the beginning - if you left this in it would have made a comment and would not be processed. Andrew. -- - Bob Hutchinson Midwales dot com -
Re: [vchkpw] Re: qmail+vpopmail on redhat 7.3 server gets very busy
Thank you All for your help. Now that my server is up and running, two last questions: 1- I know that a bad address causes the email to bounce, but what is a doublebounce exactly? 2- Every hour I get a message: from: Cron Daemon To: root Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/vpopmail/bin/clearopensmtp 2$1 /dev/null Body: /bin/sh: $1: ambiguous redirect How can I fix this error in redirect? Thanks again, Sam
Re: [vchkpw] Re: qmail+vpopmail on redhat 7.3 server gets very busy
On 2005-11-06, at 1933, Sam wrote: Now that my server is up and running, two last questions: 1- I know that a bad address causes the email to bounce, but what is a doublebounce exactly? let's say a message arrives, addressed to a userid on your system which doesn't exist. that message will bounce, because the recipient mailbox doesn't exist. now let's say that message was spam, and the Return-Path header in the message contained a forged address, and when qmail tries to deliver the bounce message, it is unable to do so. this is a doublebounce. an interesting case is if the doublebounce message cannot be delivered, because your /var/qmail/control/doublebounceto or /var/ qmail/control/doublebouncehost files are wrong (or they don't exist, and your postmaster alias isn't working.) this is known as a triplebounce. qmail handles triplebounces by dropping the message from the queue entirely. the man page for qmail-send explains the doublebounceto and doublebouncehost control files. if man qmail-send doesn't work on your system, add the line MANPATH /var/qmail/man to your /etc/ man.config file so that the man command will know to look there to find man pages. 2- Every hour I get a message: from: Cron Daemon To: root Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/vpopmail/bin/clearopensmtp 2$1 /dev/null Body: /bin/sh: $1: ambiguous redirect How can I fix this error in redirect? change the 2$1 to 21, as it should be. you will see the construct 21 in a lot of shell scripts- it means that whatever command is running with that modifier, the standard error channel (i.e. 2) is added in with the standard out channel (i.e. 1). in scripts run from cron, this prevents you from receiving an extra email with the error output. man sh will explain this in more detail. -- | John M. Simpson - KG4ZOW - Programmer At Large | | http://www.jms1.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- | Mac OS X proves that it's easier to make UNIX | | pretty than it is to make Windows secure. | -- PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[vchkpw] Re: qmail+vpopmail on redhat 7.3 server gets very busy
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 22:30:03 -0500, in gmane.mail.vpopmail you wrote: Hi, The command #Echo doublebounce /var/qmail/control/doublebounceto worked. As for the second command #echo # /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-doublebounce Nothing happened. I do not know why, but I installed it using #touch .qmail-doublebounce then I put# and saved. I did wonder whether that command would work - it didn't seem right when I wrote it. I may have had to escape the # character or something. I take it you didn't copy the # character at the beginning - if you left this in it would have made a comment and would not be processed. Andrew.
Re: [vchkpw] Re: qmail+vpopmail on redhat 7.3 server gets very busy
Adrew, This is what I typed: echo # /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-doublebounce Just curious to know why it didn't create the .qmail-doublebounce file with # in the file. Sam - Original Message - From: Andrew Hodgson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2005 6:43 AM Subject: [vchkpw] Re: qmail+vpopmail on redhat 7.3 server gets very busy On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 22:30:03 -0500, in gmane.mail.vpopmail you wrote: Hi, The command #Echo doublebounce /var/qmail/control/doublebounceto worked. As for the second command #echo # /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-doublebounce Nothing happened. I do not know why, but I installed it using #touch .qmail-doublebounce then I put# and saved. I did wonder whether that command would work - it didn't seem right when I wrote it. I may have had to escape the # character or something. I take it you didn't copy the # character at the beginning - if you left this in it would have made a comment and would not be processed. Andrew.
