I installed Qmail today and have been troubleshooting it for the better part of several hours. When I enter the command: `ps auxww | grep qmail` I receive the output:

root 2834 0.0 0.0 1356 284 pts/0 S 07:45 0:00 supervise qmail-send
qmails 2835 0.0 0.0 1404 344 pts/0 S 07:45 0:00 [qmail-send]
qmaill 2836 0.0 0.0 1372 408 pts/0 S 07:45 0:00 [splogger]
root 2838 0.0 0.0 1356 284 pts/0 S 07:45 0:00 supervise qmail-smtpd
root 2839 0.0 0.0 1348 236 pts/0 S 07:45 0:00 readproctitle service errors: ... exist?supervise: fatal: unable to start qmail/run: file does not exist?supervise: fatal: unable to start qmail/run: file does not exist?supervise: fatal: unable to start qmail/run: file does not exist?supervise: fatal: unable to start qmail/run: file does not exist?supervise: fatal: unable to start qmail/run: file does not exist?supervise: fatal: unable to start qmail/run: file does not exist?
qmaild 2840 0.0 0.0 1428 468 pts/0 S 07:45 0:00 [tcpserver]
qmaill 2843 0.0 0.0 1376 320 pts/0 S 07:45 0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t s2500000 /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd
root 2844 0.0 0.0 1356 284 pts/0 S 07:45 0:00 supervise qmail
qmaill 2847 0.0 0.0 1368 312 pts/0 S 07:45 0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t s2500000 /var/log/qmail/qmail-send
root 2848 0.0 0.0 1364 288 pts/0 S 07:45 0:00 qmail-lspawn |preline procmail
qmailr 2849 0.0 0.0 1360 288 pts/0 S 07:45 0:00 [qmail-rspawn]
qmailq 2850 0.0 0.0 1356 288 pts/0 S 07:45 0:00 [qmail-clean]
root 2887 0.0 0.0 3576 640 pts/1 S 07:45 0:00 grep qmail

I ran /command/svscan on its own and I receive the following output:

supervise: fatal: unable to start programs/run: file does not exist
supervise: fatal: unable to start Maildir/run: file does not exist
supervise: fatal: unable to start qmail/run: file does not exist

Is this reading options from the .qmail file in user directory? If not, where is it looking for files?

Kevin

There appears to be an issue with the run files. What documentaion are you using?

http://www.icefantum.net/~kdome/qmail-howto.html

I forgot what website I took it from.

I was doing some testing last night and it delivers and sends fine for my primary user, root wasnt working so well but I think it is an alias issur with that. I would assume that error could be ignored if all is working, but I dont like having errors period. If you need any more information, I will be happy to oblige.

Okay,

I am familiar with "Life with qmail" from www.qmail.org.

They set up qmail a little bit differently.

Did you copy and paste the run scripts from the document or did you type them in? I have seen this error occur when:

1. typing errors exist in the run scripts

2. the user used a Windows machine to copy and paste the
run scripts. Windows text editors add stuff to text files that
Linux doesn't like.

i found the problem, and fixed it. thanks.

Please let us know the nature of the difficulty and the solution.

This would assist other members who have the same difficulty in the future.

If you run the /command/svscan command with an extra arguement say:

/command/svscan /service/*

it will run it from /service/ and obviously /service doesnt have the necessary files, so I ran it from /var/qmail/supervise instead

but I found a far better tutorial

http://www.slackwarelinux.net/documents/qmail-HOWTO

includes setup for popmail and webmail (which I am currently trying to get to work, but havent gone indepth yet)

I had the same problem with one of my scripts because I downloaded it to a windos machine and I forgot to convert it to unix format, so every time I tried to execute the script I got the message "No such file or directory".
I checked line by line my script and I translated to Spanish the messages and when I saved it I realized that it was in DOS format.

I searched the net for a format converter and I found one at:

http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/59721.html

Then I converted my script to unix format and it worked.

Saludos!!