Just for the record:
The problem with "qmail-queue was killed" turned out to be bogus permission
mode on the root directory (which somehow affected qmail-queue's access to
/dev/zero).
# ls -ld /
drwx---r-x 35 root root1536 Sep 4 08:47 //
should obviously have been
On 30-Sep-99 Fred Backman wrote:
> 2761: open("/dev/zero", O_RDONLY) Err#13 EACCES
> 2761: open("/dev/zero", O_RDONLY) Err#13 EACCES
> ...
Check the privileges on /devices/pseudo/mm@0:zero, they should be
something like:
crw-rw-rw- 1 root sys
D_KILLED pid=2761 status=0x000B
2760: wait() = 2761 [0x000B]
qmail-inject: fatal: qmail-queue was killed
2760: write(2, " q m a i l - i n j e c t".., 44) = 44
2760: _exit(111)
2761: *** process killed ***
+ "Fred Backman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
| > If it still fails, turn on process tracing (if your system allows it)
| > and see what happens to the process.
|
| Do you mean I should trace qmail-queue? If so, how do I do that when
| qmail-queue is invoked from qmail-inject?
You seem to be on a Solar
r system allows it)
> and see what happens to the process.
Do you mean I should trace qmail-queue? If so, how do I do that when
qmail-queue is invoked from qmail-inject?
I tried tracing qmail-inject but I couldn't figure out why qmail-queue was
killed. Here's the tail of the trace
+ Fred backman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
| My mail server has been working okay until recently, and I cannot
| figure out why it's not working. This is what I get when I try to
| send a message locally:
|
| # echo bollox | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject
| qmail-inject: fatal: qmail-queue
My mail server has been working okay until recently, and I cannot figure out why it's
not working. This is what I get when I try to send a message locally:
# echo bollox | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject
qmail-inject: fatal: qmail-queue was killed
Nothing shows up in the syslog. Nothing i