From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 17 08:19:25 2004 Return-Path: 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 6EB3516A4CE for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 08:19:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from ctb-mesg3.saix.net (ctb-mesg3.saix.net [196.25.240.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB19B43D3F for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 08:19:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roland@thegreentree.org) Received: from thegreentree.org (unknown [196.25.134.130]) by ctb-mesg3.saix.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAAC63CCA for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 18:19:20 +0200 (SAST) Received: from Spooler by thegreentree.org (Mercury/32 v3.32) ID MO00000C; 17 Jan 04 18:23:39 +0200 Received: from spooler by thegreentree.org (Mercury/32 v3.32); 17 Jan 04 18:23:31 +0200 Received: from roland (127.0.0.1) by thegreentree.org (Mercury/32 v3.32) ID MG00000B; 17 Jan 04 18:23:23 +0200 From: "Roland Giesler" To: Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 18:23:23 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Subject: A while ago you posted about qmail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 16:19:25 -0000 Hi all, I've installed qmail but for some or other reason I cannot log on to the pop3 service. I keeps saying "authorisation failed". readproctitle reports: # ps -aux | grep readproc root 130 0.0 0.0 860 72 con- S Wed05PM 2:07.15 readproctitle service errors: ...r directory\nhead: /var/qmail/control/me: No such file or directory\nhead: /var/qmail/control/me: No suc... This looks quite similar to a problem I found rescrived on a mailing list somewhere but no solution was posted with it. Could anybody help to shed some light on this. I'm quite new to FreeBSD and qmail, but I cannot find much on either readproctitle or the actual error with qmail-pop3d as far as troubleshooting goes and have checked every step of my installation many times. Additional information: # svstat /service/* /service/* /service/qmail-pop3d: up (pid 142) 259012 seconds /service/qmail-send: up (pid 24352) 1 seconds /service/qmail-smtpd: up (pid 24357) 0 seconds /service/qmail-pop3d: up (pid 142) 259012 seconds /service/qmail-send: up (pid 24352) 1 seconds /service/qmail-smtpd: up (pid 24357) 0 seconds # qmailctl stat /service/qmail-send: up (pid 24723) 0 seconds /service/qmail-send/log: up (pid 746) 2471 seconds /service/qmail-smtpd: up (pid 24728) 0 seconds /service/qmail-smtpd/log: up (pid 751) 2471 seconds messages in queue: 98 messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 98 My /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-pop3/run script contains: !/bin/sh PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin export PATH exec tcpserver -H -R -v -c100 -u0 -g0 0 110 qmail-popup theempire.co.za \ /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw qmail-pop3d Maildir 2>&1 Regards Roland Giesler