Que tal amigos

I'm trying to set up an e-mail server with qmail but I have some trouble.
I followed the steps in the book "Life with qmail", I downloaded and installed ucspi-tcp and daemontools and I created all the mentioned scripts but I can't start qmail-smtpd, all the other daemons work.

This is my /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run script:

#!/bin/sh
QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild`
NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild`
MAXSMTPD=`cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming`
LOCAL=`head -1 /var/qmail/control/me`
if [ -z "$QMAILDUID" -o -z "$NOFILESGID" -o -z "$MAXSMTPD" -o -z "$LOCAL" ]; then
echo "QMAILDUID, NOFILESGID, MAXSMTPD, or LOCAL is unset in"
echo "/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run"
exit 1
fi
if [ ! -f /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts ]; then
echo "No /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts!"
echo "Refusing to start SMTP listener because it'll create an open relay"
exit 1
fi
exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 2000000 \
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -l "$LOCAL" -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb
-c "$MAXSMTPD" \
-u "$QMAILDUID" -g "$NOFILESGID" 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1

Do you see something wrong?

Watching the log file of qmail-smtpd I found this:

@400000003eddff3436aba4c4 tcpserver: fatal: unable to figure out port number for -u

All the lines are like this, differing only in the date field.

Does anybody know what this means and how can I solve it?
If I am going to use POP3 and IMAP accounts is smtpd necessary?
I don't know much about Linux or e-mail servers, please help me!

Thanks in advance! (English)
Muchas gracias de antemano! (Spanish)

@400000003eddff3436aba4c4 tcpserver: fatal: unable to figure out port number for -u
Tcpserver is missing an argument, so it's thinking "-u" will supply it with a port number.

If you start it as "sh -x /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run" and look for the tcpserver line, you should see all the variables expanded tcpserver is started with.

Then check the tcpserver manual and for each argument check if it gives you the right value or values.

Hi again

I installed Mandrake 9 yesterday and installed qmail again but I can't get qmail-smtpd running again.

Now this is the problem:

[root@madrinator qmail-smtpd]# sh -x run
++ id -u qmaild
+ QMAILDUID=503
++ id -g qmaild
+ NOFILESGID=502
++ cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming
+ MAXSMTPD=20
++ head -1 /var/qmail/control/me
+ LOCAL=madrinator.machaca.org
+ '[' -z 503 -o -z 502 -o -z 20 -o -z madrinator.machaca.org ']'
+ '[' '!' -f /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts ']'
+ exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 2000000 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -l madrinator.machaca.org -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c 20 -u 503 -g 502 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
tcpserver: fatal: unable to bind: address already used

What's this addres the last line refers to?

Thank you one more time!!

tried postfix ?

Forget it, I solved the problem.

It was postfix that was runnig. I stopped it and qmail-smtpd runs again.

Strange thing, I didn't check Mail & News packages during installation.

Anyway, what configuration file tells Linux what services must run at startup?
I stopped postfix from the Mandrake Control Center, but I'd like to know what file is responsible for loading/unloading services to do it manually.

Thanks!!

Hi everyone,

My run file is:

#!/bin/sh
QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild`
NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild`
MAXSMTPD=`cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming`
LOCAL=`head -1 /var/qmail/control/me`
if [ -z "$QMAILDUID" -o -z "$NOFILESGID" -o -z "$MAXSMTPD" -o -z "$LOCAL" ]; then
echo "QMAILDUID, NOFILESGID, MAXSMTPD, or LOCAL is unset in"
echo "/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run"
exit 1
fi
if [ ! -f /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts ]; then
echo "No /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts!"
echo "Refusing to start SMTP listener because it'll create an open relay"
exit 1
fi
exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 2000000 \
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -l "$LOCAL" -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb
-c "$MAXSMTPD" \
-u "$QMAILDUID" -g "$NOFILESGID" 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1


when I execute that with "sh run", I got Line 20 unexpected end of file.

Please help.

Thanks,

thanx for those viewing. I solved the issue know. My bad for creating script in Windows.