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Re: readproctitle service errors: ...temporary failure?multilog: fa

To: "Fabien GARZIANO" <fabien.garziano@caliseo.com>
Subject: Re: readproctitle service errors: ...temporary failure?multilog: fatal: unable to lock directory /var/log/qmail
From: "Joshua Megerman" <qmail@honorablemenschen.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 13:48:02 -0400 (EDT)
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> Hi guys,
>
>
> I'm not sure this is the right place to ask for help because it may just
> be a supervise issue. As I'm not quite sure though, let me ask.
> I just got a fresh qmail install (netqmail-1.05 package from lwq) on a
> Fedora Core4 2.6.13 kernel. I installed qmail and daemontools0.76 plsu
> ucspi-tcp-0.88. I went though install finely and I was surprise by the
> very good installation guide from lwq website. So everything is fine,
> except qmail-smtpd don't start.
>
> When I try to start service manually throught svc :
>
> [root@srv05 qmail-smtpd]# svc -d .
> [root@srv05 qmail-smtpd]# ./run
> multilog: fatal: unable to lock directory /var/log/qmail: temporary
> failure
>
<snip>

> ====> doesn't seem like a file perm problem. As I was note sure, I've
> tried a chmod 777 on /var/log/qmail/smtpd, then a chmod -R on the same
> dir. But still NOK. I've also try to rm the /var/log/qmail/smtpd/lock
> file, and restarting all the qmail stuff, a new file is created but I
> still got the problem. I've also try to restart the system => NOK.
>
Check your smtpd log run script - it's trying to write to /var/log/qmail
not /var/log/qmail/smtpd, and you can only have 1 multilog process per log
directory (for this reason I use /var/log/smtpd instead of /var/log/qmail
- the log dir is the same name as the service dir, and always sits (or is
symlinked into) /var/log).

Josh


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