Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 22:13:59 -0400 From: Brian Jackson <b.k.jackson@verizon.net> To: Michael Sharp <mds@ec.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: qmail / pop3d startup Message-ID: <3CCCAC67.9060402@verizon.net> References: <02cc01c1eecc$f44cd6a0$0301a8c0@ec.rr.com>
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There is an excellent tutorial here --> http://matt.simerson.net/computing/qmail.toaster.shtml which addresses most of your concerns (and is written for a FreeBSD environment). It also adds in a few patches necessary for MySQL support, and some other nifty things. The error message you are getting might be from not having the correct permissions on the /var/qmail/control directory. That directory should have files named defaultdelivery, defaultdomain, locals, me, plusdomain, rcpthosts, and if you've followed "Life with qmail" also concurrencyincoming. They should all be owned by root, with group qmail, and permissions 644 (-rw-r--r--). As far as Sqwebmail not authenticating, make sure that authentication daemon is setup correctly and running. I've never installed qmail from ports, but usually grab the source from http://cr.yp.to - you might want to go there, grab the source and read the install docs (there are a few of them). Post if you continue having problems. Brian Michael Sharp wrote: > I installed qmail, qmailadmin, vpopmail, sqwebmail, checkpassword, > ezmlm, and ucspi from ports and all built fine. As directed in the > qmail port, I created a /var/qmail/rc script from /var/qmail/boot ( I > tried Maildir and home ). On starting the rc script, I get the > following error: > > qmail: 1019975240.167611 alert: cannot start, unable to read controls > > I then was successfully able to start the qmaild and pop3d via 2 > tcpserver commands as directed in /var/qmail/doc/FAQ, added a domain > and pop3 user in qmailadmin, but was unable to authenticate in sqwebmail. > > Anyway, I'm struggling, and the http://lifewithqmail.org manual is > written specifically for Redhat / Linux it seems. I would very much > appreciate it if someone can point me to some DOCs on using the above > ports in FreeBSD, or point out a rc script that works under FreeBSD, > as well as what needs to be in /var/qmail/control to get rid of the > current startup error. > > Thanks in advance, > Michael Sharp -- b.k.jackson@verizon.net bjackson@brian-jackson.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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