Re: tcpserver won't start smtp]


Subject: Re: tcpserver won't start smtp]
From: Patrick Callahan (pac1@tiac.net)
Date: Wed Jan 26 2000 - 05:14:46 MST


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Pat Callahan
Acton Ma USA
Programmer and Kohlrabi Rancher

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Paul Schinder wrote:

> > Show us *exactly* how you're starting up tcpserver. > > -- > Paul Schinder > schinder@pobox.com >

Gladly:

qmail is set up as detailed in the book "life with qmail"

I start qmail with /usr/local/sbin/qmail start

qmail itself starts up but the smtp piece is missing.

/var/log/qmail/smtpd/current contains many lines like this:

@40000000388ee3e42491f61c tcpserver: fatal: unable to figure out port number for smtp

I'm sure this is some dumb user configuration error or typo. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Directories relevant to qmail: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2.3k Jan 22 11:32 /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jan 20 23:28 /usr/local/sbin/qmail -> / etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail drwxrwxr-x 3 qmaill root 1.0k Jan 22 14:22 /var/log/qmail drwxrwxr-x 2 qmaill root 1.0k Jan 26 07:00 /var/log/qmail/smtpd drwxr-xr-x 11 root 502 1.0k Jan 22 14:17 /var/qmail drwxrwxr-x 4 root root 1.0k Jan 22 14:17 /var/qmail/supervise drwxrwxr-t 4 root root 1.0k Jan 22 14:19 /var/qmail/supervise/qmail -send drwxrwxr-t 4 root root 1.0k Jan 22 17:50 /var/qmail/supervise/qmail -smtpd

-------------------------------- File: /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/run

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 29 Jan 22 14:17 /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/run

#!/bin/sh exec /var/qmail/rc

------------------------------------------------------------- File: /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 240 Jan 22 17:50 /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run

#!/bin/sh QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild` NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 2000000 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb \ -u $QMAILDUID -g $NOFILESGID 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1

------------------------------------------------------------- File: /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/run

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 88 Jan 22 14:22 /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/run

#!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail

------------------------------------------------------------- File: /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log/run

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 94 Jan 22 14:17 /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log/run

#!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail/smtpd

Pat Callahan Acton Ma USA Programmer and Kohlrabi Rancher





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