Re: qmail uid and gid problem

[satish patel <linuxtrap@yahoo.co.in>]

Dear sir

                 I have useing qmail-ldap with cluster mode but i have faceing one problem i have 2 server on diffrenet location runing on debian 3.1 but last week my one of server goes crached and i have installed RHEL 4.0 on crached server but i have facing problem  "   qmail-todo neithe by land nor by sea...  " this is the error so it is required both side O/S same or not so where is the problem???? what i do for this problem can u explain me what uid and gid number use for qmail-ldap on RHEL 4.0 ??


Satish Patel

Claudio Jeker <jeker@n-r-g.com> wrote:
>  On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 06:30:11AM +0000, satish patel wrote:
> > dear all
> >    
> >                  i have seen some doument which s talking about qmail
> >     
>              uid and gid some auther told me use user above 1000 and
> >                  some told me it is related to O/S system but last time
> >                  i have seen when i was instalell RHEL 4.0 and installed
> >                  qmail-ldap patch but i have seen one stranger error
> >                  regarding uid gid the error was "   qmail-todo neithe
> >                  by land nor by sea...  "  and after few hour my qmail
> >                  goes down and crash :(   then i have again installed
> >                  qmail with uid 1001,1002......1006    now my qmail is
> >                  working fine so anyway explain me what is the problem
> >                  of with uid and gid....
> >    
>
> qmail and qmail-ldap works great with uid < 1000. In unix it is common to
> use uig/gid < 1000 for daemons and > 1000 for real users.
> qmail-ldap does not deliver mails to users with a uid/gid <
>  100,
> changable via qmail-ldap.h.
>
> The qmail-todo "neither by land not by sea" error has nothing todo with
> bad uids but with the fact that qmail-todo was unable to figure out a
> single recipient for that specific mail and so delivery is impossible.
> If you see this error more often it could be that uid/gid are messed up.
> qmail uses hardcoded numbers and so it is necessary to recompile the whole
> thing when you change it.
>
> -- 
> :wq Claudio

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