Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 06:43:23 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Kelly Jones <kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: qmail.sh is broken symlink Message-ID: <20090516044323.GA65633@owl.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <26face530905151829g3c43fc2fpa8ddd11b3602f9c1@mail.gmail.com> References: <26face530905151829g3c43fc2fpa8ddd11b3602f9c1@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 06:29:27PM -0700, Kelly Jones wrote: > I just installed qmail on my FreeBSD box out of /usr/ports/mail/qmail, > and noticed this: > > # ls -l /usr/local/etc/rc.d/qmail.sh > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 13 May 15 18:43 /usr/local/etc/rc.d/qmail.sh@ -> /va\ > r/qmail/rc > > # ls -l /var/mail/rc > ls: /var/mail/rc: No such file or directory > > I read somewhere that this is actually *supposed* to happen + that I > should copy something in /var/qmail/boot to /var/qmail/rc > > My question is: what? There are lots of files in there: > > # ls -l /var/qmail/boot/ > total 24 > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 483 May 15 18:43 binm1* > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 567 May 15 18:43 binm1+df* > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 452 May 15 18:43 binm2* > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 536 May 15 18:43 binm2+df* > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 450 May 15 18:43 binm3* > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 534 May 15 18:43 binm3+df* > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 340 May 15 18:43 home* > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 428 May 15 18:43 home+df* > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 347 May 15 18:43 maildir* > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 359 May 15 18:43 proc* > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 445 May 15 18:43 proc+df* > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1511 May 15 18:43 qmail-smtpd.rcNG* > Any of those files could actually work. They are all shell-scripts that start qmail, but with slightly different options, or using different support-programs. I can't find a description of exactly what the difference between them is, so you will probably have to look through them to see which one suits your setup best. (There are comments in each of them giving a brief description of what it does.) -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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