I did everything as explaind in "life with qmail" http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html but when I type "qmailctl start" i got:

Starting qmail
qmail-send supervise not running
qmail-smtpd supervise not running

------------------------------------

When I type "qmailctl stat" I got:
/service/qmail-send: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist
/service/qmail-send/log: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist
/service/qmail-smtpd: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist
/service/qmail-smtpd/log: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist

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Here is the structure of my "/var/qmail/supervise" directory:
supervise
|-- qmail-send
| |-- log
| | `-- run
| `-- run
`-- qmail-smtpd
|-- log
| `-- run
`-- run

All this tree is owned by the user root and group qmail
All permission in this tree is 755

Help me please!

This is propably not the best solution, but try this script.
You have to change the uid and guid on the qmaild to what you have.
This also require that you have made a tcp.smtp.cdb file. This is used for access control(limit who can use your box as a relay)
If you havent made that file just remove "-x .....".

# Starting Qmail SMTP services
#

case $1 in
start)
echo "Starting QMAIL Server... "
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -v -u 1004 -g 103 0smtp \
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3 &

/var/qmail/rc &
;;
stop)
echo "Stopping QMAIL Server... "
killall -9 tcpserver 2>&1
killall -9 qmail-lspawn 2>&1
;;
*)
echo "Syntax is: $0 {start|stop}"

esac

exit 0

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just forgot to say that you also have to change the path to the tcpserver program and the qmail stuff if you have installed it another place....

Do you have the following two symlinks?

/service/qmail-smtpd -> /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd
/service/qmail-send -> /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send

--jeremy

I have the links
here is my directory structure:

/var/qmail
drwxr-xr-x 11 root qmail 4096 Jul 18 18:32 qmail

/var/qmail/*
total 40
drwxr-sr-x 2 alias qmail 4096 Jul 18 16:08 alias
drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail 4096 Jul 18 18:35 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail 4096 Jul 18 14:26 boot
drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail 4096 Jul 18 15:31 control
drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail 4096 Jul 18 15:56 doc
drwxr-xr-x 10 root qmail 4096 Jul 18 16:14 man
drwxr-x--- 11 qmailq qmail 4096 Jul 18 11:48 queue
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 214 Jul 18 14:09 rc
drwxr-xr-x 4 root qmail 4096 Jul 18 15:17 supervise
drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail 4096 Jul 18 11:48 users

there is no files in alias, at least I can't see them, but when Igive permissions an make symbolic links to supost files inh it there are no errors.

/var/qmail/bin
total 732
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 9208 Jul 18 11:48 bouncesaying
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 16212 Jul 18 11:48 condredirect
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 126 Jul 18 11:48 datemail
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 114 Jul 18 11:48 elq
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 9208 Jul 18 11:48 except
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 16028 Jul 18 11:48 forward
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 19116 Jul 18 11:48 maildir2mbox
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 8836 Jul 18 11:48 maildirmake
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 17420 Jul 18 11:48 maildirwatch
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 179 Jul 18 11:48 mailsubj
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 115 Jul 18 11:48 pinq
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 13032 Jul 18 11:48 predate
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 13136 Jul 18 11:48 preline
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 115 Jul 18 11:48 qail
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 11936 Jul 18 11:48 qbiff
-rwx--x--x 1 root qmail 10324 Jul 18 11:48 qmail-clean
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 2877 Jul 18 14:56 qmailctl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 803 Jul 18 18:35 qmaildeamon
-rwx--x--x 1 root qmail 5848 Jul 18 11:48 qmail-getpw
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 35880 Jul 18 11:48 qmail-inject
-rwx--x--x 1 root qmail 36376 Jul 18 11:48 qmail-local
-rwx------ 1 root qmail 17600 Jul 18 11:48 qmail-lspawn
-rwx------ 1 root qmail 16448 Jul 18 11:48 qmail-newmrh
-rwx------ 1 root qmail 12340 Jul 18 11:48 qmail-newu
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 21592 Jul 18 11:48 qmail-pop3d
-rwx--x--x 1 root qmail 12480 Jul 18 11:48 qmail-popup
-rwx--x--x 1 root qmail 17228 Jul 18 11:48 qmail-pw2u
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 13272 Jul 18 11:48 qmail-qmqpc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 16468 Jul 18 11:48 qmail-qmqpd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 22416 Jul 18 11:48 qmail-qmtpd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 16724 Jul 18 11:48 qmail-qread
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 371 Jul 18 11:48 qmail-qstat
-rws--x--x 1 qmailq qmail 12800 Jul 18 11:48 qmail-queue
-rwx--x--x 1 root qmail 26832 Jul 18 11:48 qmail-remote
-rwx--x--x 1 root qmail 16800 Jul 18 11:48 qmail-rspawn
-rwx--x--x 1 root qmail 40352 Jul 18 11:48 qmail-send
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 16844 Jul 18 11:48 qmail-showctl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 27292 Jul 18 11:48 qmail-smtpd
-rwx------ 1 root qmail 5728 Jul 18 11:48 qmail-start
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 9200 Jul 18 11:48 qmail-tcpok
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 11344 Jul 18 11:48 qmail-tcpto
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 21924 Jul 18 11:48 qreceipt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 11424 Jul 18 11:48 qsmhook
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 9584 Jul 18 11:48 sendmail
-rwx--x--x 1 root qmail 7128 Jul 18 11:48 splogger
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 17272 Jul 18 11:48 tcp-env

/var/qmail/boot
total 40
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 347 Jul 18 11:48 binm1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 431 Jul 18 11:48 binm1+df
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 316 Jul 18 11:48 binm2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 400 Jul 18 11:48 binm2+df
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 314 Jul 18 11:48 binm3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 398 Jul 18 11:48 binm3+df
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 204 Jul 18 11:48 home
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 292 Jul 18 11:48 home+df
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 223 Jul 18 11:48 proc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 309 Jul 18 11:48 proc+df


/var/qmail/boot
total 28
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3 Jul 18 15:31 concurrencyincoming
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11 Jul 18 14:52 defaultdelivery
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10 Jul 18 11:48 defaultdomain
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10 Jul 18 11:48 locals
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10 Jul 18 11:48 me
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10 Jul 18 11:48 plusdomain
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10 Jul 18 11:48 rcpthosts

/var/qmail/doc
/var/qmail/man
no need to show those

/var/qmail/queue
total 36
drwx------ 2 qmails qmail 4096 Jul 18 11:48 bounce
drwx------ 25 qmails qmail 4096 Jul 18 11:48 info
drwx------ 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Jul 18 11:48 intd
drwx------ 25 qmails qmail 4096 Jul 18 11:48 local
drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Jul 18 11:48 lock
drwxr-x--- 25 qmailq qmail 4096 Jul 18 11:48 mess
drwx------ 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Jul 18 11:48 pid
drwx------ 25 qmails qmail 4096 Jul 18 11:48 remote
drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Jul 18 11:48 todo
if you want I can show the rest of the "queue" tree

/var/qmail/supervise
is all owned by root:qmail

/var/qmail/users
total 0

ps ax |grep supervise
2664 pts/1 R 0:00 grep supervise

ps aux show nothing

Is anyone going to help me or not? this is big problem dude!

It's only been an hour since your last post. Anyway - What does a ls -l /service show?

--jeremy

Thanks to starting helping me out

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Jul 18 19:19 qmail-send -> /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Jul 18 19:19 qmail-smtpd -> /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/

it was iwthout the final "/" before and not working in both ways

Is svscan running? Do you have the appropriate line in /etc/inittab?

--jeremy

How do I knwo if svcscan is running and what is it?

I did not entered anything on my inittab
/etc/inittab
#
# inittab This file describes how the INIT process should set up
# the system in a certain run-level.
#
# Author: Miquel van Smoorenburg, <miquels@drinkel.nl.mugnet.org>
# Modified for RHS Linux by Marc Ewing and Donnie Barnes
#

# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
# 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
# 1 - Single user mode
# 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)
# 3 - Full multiuser mode
# 4 - unused
# 5 - X11
# 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#
id:3:initdefault:

# System initialization.
si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit

l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0
l1:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1
l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 2
l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 3
l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 4
l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 5
l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 6

# Things to run in every runlevel.
ud::once:/sbin/update

# Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now

# When our UPS tells us power has failed, assume we have a few minutes
# of power left. Schedule a shutdown for 2 minutes from now.
# This does, of course, assume you have powerd installed and your
# UPS connected and working correctly.
pf::powerfail:/sbin/shutdown -f -h +2 "Power Failure; System Shutting Down"

# If power was restored before the shutdown kicked in, cancel it.
pr:12345:powerokwait:/sbin/shutdown -c "Power Restored; Shutdown Cancelled"


# Run gettys in standard runlevels
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6

# Run xdm in runlevel 5
# xdm is now a separate service
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon

Whats is svscan - http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/svscan.html

Sounds like daemontools may not be installed correctly. Make sure you followed http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/install.html

--jeremy

This is what happens when I run svscan inside /var/qmail/supervise

\supervise: fatal: unable to start supervise/run: file does not exist
multilog: fatal: unable to lock directory /var/log/qmail: temporary failure
multilog: fatal: unable to lock directory /var/log/qmail: temporary failure
supervise: fatal: unable to start supervise/run: file does not exist
multilog: fatal: unable to lock directory /var/log/qmail: temporary failure
multilog: fatal: unable to lock directory /var/log/qmail: temporary failure
supervise: fatal: unable to start supervise/run: file does not exist
multilog: fatal: unable to lock directory /var/log/qmail: temporary failure
multilog: fatal: unable to lock directory /var/log/qmail: temporary failure
supervise: fatal: unable to start supervise/run: file does not exist
multilog: fatal: unable to lock directory /var/log/qmail: temporary failure
multilog: fatal: unable to lock directory /var/log/qmail: temporary failure

Do you recomend de use of the qinstall packge to install qmail and other addons?

This is for reference purposes for those who get the error:

# qmailctl start
qmail-send supervise not running
qmail-smtpd supervise not running


Though the solution for me was simple, it took quite a while to track down.

The problem was during my install of daemontools, I did not want to restart my server (don't like resetting my uptime :-p ), even though the instructions said I should. This caused the problem that 'svscanboot' was not running, though it would have been started after a reboot. Well, I saved my uptime and solved the problem with one simple command:

# svscanboot &

Now when I start and stop qmail I get:
# qmail start
Starting qmail
# qmail stop
Stopping qmail...
qmail-smtpd
qmail-send



Hope this helps others solve their problem :-)

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