my resolution: apt-get --purge --force-yes remove qmail* ucspi-tcp* dot-forward fast-forward apt-get install postfix vi /etc/postfix/main.cf postfix reload -ben On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 09:20:29AM -0700, Ben Hartshorne wrote: > Hi everyone, > I am experiencing a problem mentioned many many times on various > mailing lists (a google search turned up several), but I have not been > able to find a resolution anywhere. > > I followed the instructions in the qmail HOWTO v2 (posted many places, > one of which is http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html). > > When I start my computer (or manually start svscan or qmail) I get the > error message: > supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: temporary failure > supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-send/supervise/lock: temporary failure > supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-smtpd/supervise/lock: temporary failure > supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: temporary failure > > I have found many people also had this problem, but I could not find any > thread that solved it for me. It seems the common problems that were > causing this symptom for other people included missing files and > incorrect permissions. I'm pretty sure neither is the case for me. > > I installed using the .deb packages for qmail, uscpi-tcp, dot-forward, > etc. from > ftp://ftp.innominate.org/pub/pape/Debian/potato/unofficial/binary-i386/ > and then configured them as instructed in the howto linked above. > > Could any of you point me to a link describing how to fix this? Or > perhaps walk me through the solution? Please cc: ben@hartshorne.net and > ben@adax.com in any replies, I'm not on the qmail-help list (and > ben@adax.com is not on debian-user). > > I feel like a bit of a dolt, because I just started at a new company and > was extolling to them the virtues of debian and qmail, and I just spent > an entire day trying to install just those two on one computer, and > failed miserably. :( > > I'm cross posting this to debian-user because I am installing on debian > and using (unofficial) .deb packages; perhaps one of you has run into > this before. > > Final twist: I don't have access to the machine as I'm writing this > mail, so can't give you folder listings etc. I can on monday. But I do > remember most of them. > > (from memory) > /services/ > drwxr-xr-x qmail-send -> /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send > drwxr-xr-x qmail-smtpd -> /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smptpd > > drwxr-xr-t /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/ > -rwxr-xr-x /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/run > drwxr-xr-x /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/ > -rwxr-xr-x /var/qmail/supervise/qmail/send/log/run > > > Thanks, > > -ben > > -- > Ben Hartshorne ...Discarding smoothly, as we disembark, > ben@hartshorne.net All thoughts that held us wiser for a moment > ben.hartshorne.net Up there, alone, in the impartial dark. -M. Oliver > My PGP key is at /pgp.txt. Please encrypt all communications. > -- Ben Hartshorne ...Discarding smoothly, as we disembark, ben@hartshorne.net All thoughts that held us wiser for a moment ben.hartshorne.net Up there, alone, in the impartial dark. -M. Oliver My PGP key is at /pgp.txt. Please encrypt all communications.
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