From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 16 20:37: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2251D37B400 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 20:37:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pimout3-int.prodigy.net (pimout3-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.63.102]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8033F43E64 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 20:37:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vetter_david@sbcglobal.net) Received: from handbasket (adsl-63-195-109-194.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.195.109.194]) by pimout3-int.prodigy.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id g6H3b2a290222 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 23:37:02 -0400 Message-ID: <002601c22d43$33163f70$c26dc33f@handbasket> From: "David" To: References: <200207170303.g6H330Je077763@drugs.dv.isc.org> <01eb01c22438$7d352a80$040a0a0a@valley.net> Subject: Re: qmail and freeBSD Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 20:36:52 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Grant Cooper" > I am trying to get qmail to start, but I keep on getting unable to read > controls. I went into the directory and I have none. I read from a previous > e-mail I have to modify them? I found many tutorials but can't find anything > on these controls? > > echo HOSTNAME.DOMAIN > /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts > Ambiguous output redirect. > How are you installing qmail? Installing from the ports collection did most everything for me. The port maintainer has a seperate readme file for what to do after you have installed it from the port. Once I realized I didn't have to follow the normal readme, I had qmail up and running in about 20 min. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message