qmail Install, Immediate Problems

[bnordlund]

All-
I have been struggling with getting qmail to run on my gentoo machine. In
stepping through the howto ( http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/qmail-howto.xml ) for qmail and vpopmail, I run
into trouble right after installing qmail and daemontools. The howto says
to go ahead and launch daemontools and get the service up and running so it
can be checked for proper operation (this is only a couple steps into the
howto).

I get a string of errors upon launching svscan:


bash-2.05b# /etc/init.d/svscan start
* Starting service scan... [ ok ]
SERVICE(send), QMAILDUID(201), NOFILESGID(200) or QMAILLUID() is unset in
./run
LOG_OPTS:
LOG_DEST: /var/log/qmail/qmail-send
Error in logging setup!
Some error detected in send, sleeping for 90 seconds for safety
SERVICE(smtp), QMAILDUID(201), NOFILESGID(200) or QMAILLUID() is unset in
./run
LOG_OPTS:
LOG_DEST:
Error in logging setup!
No CDB file found ()
Some error detected in smtp, sleeping for 90 seconds for safety

wash, rinse, repeat (apparently every 90 seconds)

My interpretation of this shows me two basic issues: one the logging problem due
to the missing QMAILLID, and the second being the missing CDB file (no clue what this is).

If I go ahead and proceed to test the operation of qmail, it does not appear
to be working at all. However, qmail-send, qmail-clean, qmail-lspawn, and
qmail-rspawn are all running, under the process supervise. As a result, I
am hoping that something above will be recognized by someone who can steer
me in the right direction.

I am assuming that the missing QMAILLUID would only impact the logging
function, so I wonder if the "No CDB file found" might be more significant.
The QMAILL user does exist and the ID is 201. I have looked at the run
scripts under /service and they are referencing other files that must be
giving them all the user ID's and group ID's that seem to be correct, since
the main run files don't specify any of them directly.

I hate to bug everyone with what is probably a bonehead mistake, but I've
been spending late nights on this, off and on, for two months now. Any
pointers?

Thanks,
Brian.

[ningo]

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44211#c4
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