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msauvain at EDV-Support

Apr 17, 2000, 2:11 AM

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Start Qmail

hello, my problem is follow:

i compiled qmail, i'havent installed before. all works fine, mysql patch work also.... but now where im confusing about qmail:

HOWTO START?

itried different things out, im confused..... fact: i have suse 6.2

1. isnt possbile to start qmail par inetd ?
1a. the smtpd works, but the pop server not ? i saw in the manual howto put smtpd in the inetd line,
but not pop3d or thaths the other quest:

2. i was installing the tool of ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/ucspi-tcp.html .... (and the other deamon tools)
the tool works fine, but cant really i find the ONE qmail manual (surly one of these lot of tons)
how to start, i have alltimes some failures, but i dont know where to search the failure, because im confused...

3. it's the same file that i use for pop, when i use mysql support
3a. and when, it depends if i use clear text or crypted passwords in the mysql table ??

thanks...................

de5 at sws5

Apr 17, 2000, 8:26 AM

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Re: Start Qmail [In reply to]

"Mike Alexander Sauvain" <msauvain [at] EDV-Support> wrote:

>1. isnt possbile to start qmail par inetd ?

No. You can run qmail-smtpd and qmail-pop3d from inetd (not
recommended), but qmail-start has to be run once when the system
starts up.

>1a. the smtpd works, but the pop server not ? i saw in the manual
> howto put smtpd in the inetd line, but not pop3d or thaths the
> other quest:

You'll have to show us exactly what you put in inetd.conf.

>2. i was installing the tool of
> ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/ucspi-tcp.html .... (and the other
> deamon tools) the tool works fine, but cant really i find the ONE
> qmail manual (surly one of these lot of tons) how to start,

"Life with qmail", http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html

>3. it's the same file that i use for pop, when i use mysql support
>3a. and when, it depends if i use clear text or crypted passwords in
> the mysql table ??

Beats me. I've never used the mysql stuff.

-Dave

kyle-qmail at memoryhole

Aug 6, 2009, 11:26 AM

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Re: start qmail [In reply to]

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On Thursday, August 6 at 11:36 AM, quoth Zhiliang Hu:
>I followed instructions at
>http://lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#installation
>for qmail-1.06, daemontools-0.76, and ucspi-tcp-0.88. Everything
>worked fine.

Good!

>When I tried to start qmail as in:
>
> > /usr/bin/nohup /bin/csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc &'
[snip]
>-- nothing happened. No error, no qmail processes.

That's not how the LWQ tells you to start qmail (do you know why?).
Unless you have a particular reason that you don't want to (or can't),
I suggest you follow the LWQ a bit more closely.

If it still doesn't work (i.e. if you've run `qmailctl stat` and
discovered that things aren't running), according to
http://lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#installation:

All four services should be "up" for more than a second. If
they're not, you've probably got a typo in the associated run
script or you skipped one or more steps in creating the necessary
files, directories, or links. Go back through the installation
step-by-step and double check your work. You can also download and
run the inst_check script, available from
http://lifewithqmail.org/inst_check.

So, once you've tried starting qmail the way the LWQ tells you, try
that inst_check script.

>I also set up the xinetd as shown in
>http://barriebremner.com/geek/qmailxinetd.cgi and did:

Hm.

Is there a reason you're avoiding tcpserver? You said you *installed*
tcpserver (it's part of ucspi-tcp), so... why not use it? tcpserver is
better at this task than xinetd is.

If you really prefer using xinetd, you probably need to look into
xinetd-specific support.

~Kyle
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