In order to get back to prompt you have to end the command in the & sign. The & sign will tell it to fork to the background.
exec /command/svscanboot & It should work in rc.local like exec /command/svscanboot & Good luck. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 12:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [toaster] Supervise not running after ubuntu upgrade I did what Andrew suggested and qmail began to work but the machine does not give me the prompt again, i open another session to see what happened, well qmail was running and working with pop, the imap serve still is down. i tested to put scf *cf '/commands/svscanboot %', i have this configuration in another ubuntu 8 with qmail working very well but in this case this solution doesnt work.Tomorrow i am going to include exec /commands/svscanboot in rc.local to see if everything work fine and dedicate my atention to the imap server that aparently is not autenticating with ldap any sugestion is welcome thank you very much , the users are working more happy with the mail server working again thanks to this fabolus comunity thanks again castro > Why cant you just run: > > exec /command/svscanboot > > to start it manually? > > Then add: > > exec /command/svscanboot > > to /etc/rc.local > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 10:32 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [toaster] Supervise not running after ubuntu upgrade > > Thanks for your help, I have a question now, can i install daemontools > without loose the email of my users, i have more tham 600 users, it is a > mail server for an educational institution and i am not sure if i can > reinstall daemontols following > http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-djbdns-setup-on-ubuntu8.04-amd64 and my > users still have access to mail. > > manuel > >> [email protected] wrote: >> >> Check out the start of this article for how to get supervise working on >> ubuntu. >> >> http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-djbdns-setup-on-ubuntu8.04-amd64 >> >> They changed things quite a bit on the newer version of Ubuntu. There >> are other ways of >> doing it, but that was one of the first ones that came up on google. >> >> Shane >>> Hello >>> I am newbie to qmail, after upgrade my mail server from Ubuntu Dapper >>> to >>> Hardy qmail is not working. System is a 32 bit Dell server running >>> Ubuntu >>> 8.04 now. >>> I tried qmailctl restart and obtain : >>> >>> Restarting qmail: >>> * Stopping qmail-smtpd. >>> svc: warning: unable to control /service/qmail-smtpd: supervise not >>> running >>> * Sending qmail-send SIGTERM and restarting. >>> svc: warning: unable to control /service/qmail-send: supervise not >>> running >>> * Restarting qmail-smtpd. >>> svc: warning: unable to control /service/qmail-smtpd: supervise not >>> running >>> >>> r...@server:/usr/lib# vpopmailctl stat >>> /service/qmail-pop3d: supervise not running >>> /service/qmail-pop3d/log: supervise not running >>> /service/qmail-pop3ds: supervise not running >>> /service/qmail-pop3ds/log: supervise not running >>> >>> Supervise is not running at all, i need help, what can I do , need to >>> fast >>> solve it. >>> thanks >>> Manuel Castro >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > > > >
