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slartibartfasz
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 Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2002 3:50 pm Post subject: init scripts for qmail - problems with svscan |
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i emerged qmail, rtfm and got it working quite fine  ... safe one little problem - i cant seem to start qmail on reboot 
if i understod that correct, qmail should be started by running svscan. i added svscan to the default runlevel, but on boot i get the following problem:
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root@box# ps aux | grep qmail
root 3814 0.0 0.7 1392 468 pts/0 S 16:29 0:00 grep qmail
root@box# /etc/init.d/svscan start
* WARNING: "svscan" has already been started.
root@box# /etc/init.d/qmail start
Starting qmail
qmail-send supervise not running
qmail-smtpd supervise not running
root@box# /etc/init.d/svscan restart
* Stopping service scan......
start-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill 3178: No such process [ !! ]
* Stopping services......
svc: warning: unable to control /service/qmail-send: supervise not running
svc: warning: unable to control /service/qmail-smtpd: supervise not running [ ok ]
* Stopping service logging......
svc: warning: unable to control /service/qmail-send/log: supervise not running
svc: warning: unable to control /service/qmail-smtpd/log: supervise not running [ ok ]
* Starting service scan...... [ ok ]
root@box# ps aux | grep qmail
root 3869 0.0 0.4 1284 304 pts/0 S 16:29 0:00 supervise qmail-send
root 3871 0.0 0.4 1284 304 pts/0 S 16:29 0:00 supervise qmail-smtpd
qmails 3874 0.6 0.6 1336 380 pts/0 S 16:29 0:00 qmail-send
qmaill 3875 0.2 0.4 1296 308 pts/0 S 16:29 0:00 /usr/bin/multilog t s2500000 /var/log/qmail/qmail-send
qmaild 3876 0.3 1.2 2312 772 pts/0 S 16:29 0:00 /usr/bin/tcpserver -H -R -v -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 1005 -g 200 0 smtp rblsmtpd /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
qmaill 3878 0.2 0.4 1296 308 pts/0 S 16:29 0:00 /usr/bin/multilog t s2500000 /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd
root 3883 0.0 0.5 1304 324 pts/0 S 16:29 0:00 qmail-lspawn |dot-forward .forward?./.maildir/
qmailr 3884 0.0 0.5 1300 320 pts/0 S 16:29 0:00 qmail-rspawn
qmailq 3885 0.0 0.5 1284 332 pts/0 S 16:29 0:00 qmail-clean
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system thinks that svscan is up and running, qmail says, its not and wont run unless i restart it, which gives me some strange warnings
i went over the instructions in 'life with qmail' over and over, but i seem to miss something - an idea anyone? |
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| Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2002 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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Sounds like svscan is dying at startup time. Anything in the logs? If you run it manually can you get it to error on you?
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slartibartfasz
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| Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 12:38 am Post subject: |
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root@box# /etc/init.d/svscan stop
* Stopping service scan...... [ ok ]
* Stopping services...... [ ok ]
* Stopping service logging...... [ ok ]
root@box# svscan
supervise: fatal: unable to start mail/run: file does not exist
supervise: fatal: unable to start mail/run: file does not exist
supervise: fatal: unable to start mail/run: file does not exist
root@box# /etc/init.d/svscan start
* Starting service scan...... [ ok ]
root@box# qmailctl stat
/service/qmail-send: up (pid 6636) 8 seconds
/service/qmail-send/log: up (pid 6637) 8 seconds
/service/qmail-smtpd: up (pid 6639) 8 seconds
/service/qmail-smtpd/log: up (pid 6638) 8 seconds
messages in queue: 0
messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0
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should have thought of trying that myself ... but anyway - svscan works fine except when started via the standard bootscript and another mysterie here - i thought it tries to start all progs in /services which have a .run script - well there are only two: qmail-send and qmail-smtp where does it get 'mail/run' from ??? weird
the logs *blush* - i dont have the slightest idea where svscan logs to, only thing i found is readproctitle and i have to confess that i dont unterstand what this thing does - i'm not sooo new to linux anymore, but i dont understand how one can get some useful information out of this - other than that, the qmail-send and qmail-smtp logs look completely normal, everything ok there...nothing in var/log, except the 'WARNING: "svscan" has already been started.' messages, but that would only bother me if they would NOT be there  |
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slartibartfasz
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| Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 9:54 am Post subject: |
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DUH!
i guess i need some sleep real fast - svscan tried to exec from the current dir, therefore the errors...so forget the above on this respect...
the correct snippet is:
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root@box# init.d/svscan stop
* Stopping service scan...... [ ok ]
* Stopping services...... [ ok ]
* Stopping service logging...... [ ok ]
root@box# cd /service/
root@box# svscan &
[1] 7404
root@box# qmailctl stat
/service/qmail-send: up (pid 7409) 56 seconds
/service/qmail-send/log: up (pid 7410) 56 seconds
/service/qmail-smtpd: up (pid 7411) 56 seconds
/service/qmail-smtpd/log: up (pid 7412) 56 seconds
messages in queue: 0
messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0
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no problem here it seems - leads me to suspect that something with the init script is wrong - maybe some path or something like that...we'll see |
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slartibartfasz
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| Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 10:05 am Post subject: |
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| hehe - i think everyone should get a 'i help myself' thread by default - helps to work in a systematic manner - maybe i'll install my private phpbb on my local box - LOL |
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slartibartfasz
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| Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2002 10:45 am Post subject: |
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resolved:
svscan init script was in runlevels boot AND default...
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