Roger Arnold wrote:
Again, thanks for the reply.
Item 1, in your list has been done, and I also don't think I had a bad download, so
I think I will try number 2 and rebuild.
Everything worked fine when I installed Qmail from RPM's but then I had other
problems, and in any case I think I would rather compile from sources and not use
RPM's
Again thanks for your suggestions
Roger
Matthew Patterson wrote:
> the only things that i can think of as your problem are:
> 1. the qmail/users/assign and the corresponding db are non-existant. make sure
> that both those files have been created. (see the man pages for qmail-pw2u and
> qmail-newu)
> 2. bad build: try rebuilding, maybe show you ./comfigure options :)
> 3. bad download: but you probably would have gotten an error when you unpacked
> the archive.
>
> that's it, brain is dry now, let me know if you have questions.
>
> MHP
>
> On Mon, 08 Jan 2001, Oldarnie wrote:
> Roger Arnold wrote:
>
> Thanks for the reply Matthew,
>
> Yes I am running any and all commands as "root", should I try a different user ?
>
> Roger
>
> Matthew Patterson wrote:
>
> > what user are you running vadddomain as?
> > you may want to try running it as vpopmail, but i usually just run it as root.
> >
> > MHP
> >
> > On Mon, 08 Jan 2001, you wrote:
> > Roger Arnold wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I think I have successfully installed Qmail and now am trying to get
> > Vpopmail working, however I seem to have a fundamental problem.
> >
> > If I execute vadddomain I get the following error:
> > Error Could not add domain
> > however the domain seems to have been created as if I try to creat it
> > again vpopmail comes back and says it is already installed.
> >
> > Similary if I try again to add the domain I get the following response:
> > vadddomain: Success
> > Error: Domain already exisits
> >
> > If I try and remove the domain I get the following error:
> > Error: Could not add domain
> >
> > If I try to add a user to that domain I get the following:
> > Please enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> > enter password again:
> > Error: Unable to chdir to vpopmail/domains directory
> >
> > The owner for /vpopmail and all directories under it is: vpopmail
> > The group for all is: vchkpw
> >
> > If I look in the directory /home/vpopmail/domains the domain I was
> > trying to create is there, there is also a listing in Qmail under the
> > control directory and in virtualdomains.
> > I am running RH7 and have installed from the tar.gz files and NOT the
> > RPM's
> >
> > If possible could someone provide some insite ASAP
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> > Roger
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