qmail missing Newu file
 

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Hello.

I am using Slackware Linux 9.1. I am planning to use linux as my server for email and ftp sites here at work.

I am trying to get my qmail working. I have gone to qmailrocks.org and followed their step by step instructions on installation of qmail. However, when I hit around page 6 i have some problems. I go to configure vpopmail using (./configure --enable-logging=p) and it goes to configure and everything looks okay, until the end when it says
configure:error: unable to find your qmail-newu file, specify --enable-qmail-newu=/full/path/to/qmail-newu
So then I type in ./configure --enable-qmail-newu=/full/path/to/qmail-newu
and again it looks all good until the end when I get the exact same error messasge.

I have tried to look up to download a qmail-newu file and just run it so it can all work, but I cannot find one to download seperately.

Am i doing something completely wrong? Any suggestions would be EXTREMELY appreciated!

muchas gracias

Isa

The full path to that file is....

--enable-qmail-newu=/var/qmail/bin/qmail-newu

Try that. This is where the file is on my system... I'm sure it will be the same for you, but maybe run ls -l /var/qmail/bin and be sure it's really in there.

Thank you very much for your help, but my /var/qmail/bin does not exist. Would you have any more suggestions about what I could do next to trouble shoot? Is there any place to download newu? Or maybe, i have a falty version?

Thanks again

isa

If you don't have /var/qmail/bin, something is terribly wrong. On this page... http://qmailrocks.org/qmail.htm the instructions specify to instal qmail into /var/qmail, so this directory should most definitely exist. If /var/qmail doesn't exist, then you should probably start over, as it means you didn't do everything correctly. The instructions specify to create /var/qmail in the second step of this page.

When you install qmail, it will create the "bin" directory under /var/qmail and put a bunch of files under here including the one you're looking for.

I don't recommend downloading the newu file seperately as this would be a total hack-job. It's more important to get your qmail setup properly so that /var/qmail/bin exists and has all of the binaries in there needed to run qmail.

Thank you very much for your help. It was kind of my own stupid mistake that I did not enter the commands correctly for the computer to understand me.

thanks again

Okay, so now I have another stupid question. ....

I am still on the same page. http://www.qmailrocks.org/vqadmin.htm and I entered the

make && make install-strip command. everything is running smoothly...but when I hit the next part...nothing is working right.

I entered just the default command for where my directory should be, and it is there...but it's not working. Maybe I do not understand what it is that I should enter there so that I can get the directory line that the page has as an example.

If anyone has any suggestions. I would be happy to hear them.

Thank you very much

Ok, the very next part is the discussion about setting up the apache webserver so you can view the control panel for vqadmin. Is that where you are???

The green text is what you need to copy/paste into the httpd.conf file. The red part of that block should be whatever path you have setup on your system.

If you look up a little ways, there is part of the "configure" line where you defined the location of your cgi-bin.

./configure --enable-cgibindir=/path/to/your/cgi-bin

Just use the same path you used here. For example, /home/yourname/www/html/cgi-bin may have been what you used. If so, use it again in the apache config section.

If you're stuck on the .htaccess / .htpasswd section, then I apologize profusely, but you were a little vauge on specifically what part was giving you trouble.

Thank you so very much for taking time out of your day to answer my silly newbie questions! you are great! Thanks again

Isa

Hello again.

I seem to have run into another problem. I am in part 8 of the qmailrocks.org page http://www.qmailrocks.org/qmailadmin.htm

And I have entered through the ./configure part. I know I am entering the ./configure part correctly, but I get this error at the end that says
configure: error: Unable to find your html image directory, specify --enable-imagedir.

So, now I am thinking that I want to check the error log and check out where exactly it is looking for my image directory. I know that my image directory is not in the normal spot, I was thinking that I could find it and then move it to where linux is looking for it to be. However, I have no idea what the command is for the error log.

If anyone has any advice, I would be so greatful! Thank you very much

Isa

P.S. I'm using slackware 9.1 thanks :)

What this is saying is... this is the location of your images for qmailadmin. You should probably setup a directory somewhere to be used for the location of your images for qmailadmin. Maybe something like /home/yourname/www/html/images or something along those lines. THen you specify that in your configure statement like this...

./configure <other arguments here> --enable-imagedir=/home/yourname/www/html/images

Oh thank you! This makes sense! I'll give it a try :)

Isa

I know this is an old topic, but I am having a similar problem to what was mentioned here and can't find an answer. When I reach Page 6 of the instructions on qmailrocks.org (Step 6 is vpopmail config), I type:

./configure --enable-logging=e

and I get the following error at the end of the output:

configure:error: unable to find your qmail-newu file, specify --enable-qmail-newu=/full/path/to/qmail-newu

I know that qmail-newu SHOULD be in /var/qmail/bin/qmail-newu, but mine isn't there. I have /var/qmail, but I don't have a bin/ directory at all (just alias, control, and supervise). I also tried locate and cannot find qmail-newu anywhere else. I know I followed the instructions on the installation page exactly but I may have missed an error during the build process because there was a lot of output and I just looked over it quickly to scan for errors.

On this machine I am running FC6, and I did install all RH/FC patches throughout the qmailrocks instructions (no errors while installing patches). Any suggestions would be appreciated.