From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 16 7:53:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from moebius2.Space.Net (moebius2.Space.Net [195.30.1.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DC95B37B405 for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 07:53:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mh@Space.Net) Received: (qmail 50264 invoked by uid 1408); 16 Aug 2001 14:53:09 -0000 Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 16:53:09 +0200 From: Martin Hasenbein To: Darryl Hoar Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: qmail install problem Message-ID: <20010816165309.E90389@Space.Net> Reply-To: Martin Hasenbein References: <002601c12663$45149880$0701a8c0@darryl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <002601c12663$45149880$0701a8c0@darryl>; from darryl@osborne-ind.com on Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 09:53:53AM -0500 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 Darryl Hoar (darryl@osborne-ind.com) wrote: > Greetings, > Am running 4.3-release. > > I want to install and run qmail on my machine. So, > I cd /usr/ports/mail/qmail. make make install. > Read the docs for setting things up. Do the changes > that the qmail docs want. When I restart the computer, > I get: > qmail: Alert: Cannot Start: unable to read controls. > > looked in the /var/qmail/control directory and its empty. > > Searched google and found a reference that if you don't have > DNS, you need to manually build control/me yourself. > > Any ideas or pointers? This is for an internal mail server, > and our LAN does not use internal DNS. > Hi Darryl, take a look at http://www.lifewithqmail.org /martin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message