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Subject: readproctitle service errors: ...temporary failure?multilog: fatal: unable to lock directory /var/log/qmail
From: "Fabien GARZIANO" <fabien.garziano@caliseo.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 18:17:23 +0200
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Thread-topic: readproctitle service errors: ...temporary failure?multilog: fatal: unable to lock directory /var/log/qmail
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

I checked if there was another process troying to access this file/dir or even 
port : 

[root@srv05 qmail-smtpd]# ps aux |grep mail
root      2765  0.0  0.0   1404   256 ?        S    15:39   0:04 readproctitle 
service errors: ...emporary failure?multilog: fatal: unable to lock directory 
/var/log/qmail: temporary failure?multilog: fatal: unable to lock directory 
/var/log/qmail: temporary failure?multilog: fatal: unable to lock directory 
/var/log/qmail: temporary failure?multilog: fatal: unable to lock directory 
/var/log/qmail: temporary failure?multilog: fatal: unable to lock directory 
/var/log/qmail: temporary failure?
root      2766  0.0  0.0   1412   308 ?        S    15:39   0:00 supervise 
qmail-smtpd
root      2768  0.0  0.0   1416   308 ?        S    15:39   0:00 supervise 
qmail-send
root      8677  0.0  0.2   3956  1212 ?        Ss   17:38   0:00 /usr/bin/wget 
-a /dev/null -O /dev/null -q http://130.1.98.61/xps/modules/xhelp/checkemail.php
qmaill    8882  0.0  0.0   1428   300 ?        S    17:45   0:00 
/usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail/smtpd
qmails    8883  0.0  0.0   1588   388 ?        S    17:45   0:00 qmail-send
qmaill    8885  0.0  0.0   1424   304 ?        S    17:45   0:00 
/usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail
root      8886  0.0  0.0   1556   344 ?        S    17:45   0:00 qmail-lspawn 
./Maildir/
qmailr    8887  0.0  0.0   1556   340 ?        S    17:45   0:00 qmail-rspawn
qmailq    8888  0.0  0.0   1548   340 ?        S    17:45   0:00 qmail-clean
root     10066  0.0  0.1   3788   740 pts/1    R+   18:01   0:00 grep mail

[root@srv05 qmail-smtpd]# netstat -a
Connexions Internet actives (serveurs et établies)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address               Foreign Address             
State
tcp        0      0 srv05:32000                 *:*                         
LISTEN
tcp        0      0 *:20000                     *:*                         
LISTEN
tcp        0      0 *:32769                     *:*                         
LISTEN
tcp        0      0 *:mysql                     *:*                         
LISTEN
tcp        0      0 *:netbios-ssn               *:*                         
LISTEN
tcp        0      0 *:sunrpc                    *:*                         
LISTEN
tcp        0      0 *:10000                     *:*                         
LISTEN
tcp        0      0 *:omni                      *:*                         
LISTEN
tcp        0      0 *:ftp                       *:*                         
LISTEN
tcp        0      0 srv05:ipp                   *:*                         
LISTEN
tcp        0      0 srv05:5335                  *:*                         
LISTEN
tcp        0      0 *:microsoft-ds              *:*                         
LISTEN

====> As you can see, no other process. Nothing is listening or running about 
smtp.

[root@srv05 log]# ll /var/log/qmail
total 8
-rw-r--r--  1 qmaill nofiles 1846 jun  6 17:45 current
-rw-------  1 qmaill nofiles    0 jun  6 16:41 lock
-rw-------  1 qmaill nofiles    0 jun  6 14:24 lock.old
drwxrwxrwx  2 qmaill nofiles 4096 jun  6 16:41 smtpd
-rw-r--r--  1 qmaill nofiles    0 jun  6 14:24 state

[root@srv05 smtpd]# pwd
/var/log/qmail/smtpd
[root@srv05 smtpd]# ll
total 0
-rw-r--r--  1 qmaill nofiles 0 jun  6 14:24 current
-rw-------  1 qmaill nofiles 0 jun  6 16:41 lock
-rw-r--r--  1 qmaill nofiles 0 jun  6 14:24 state

====> 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.

I've checked lwq site, tried the http://lifewithqmail.org/inst_check script 
that says everything looks good. I've searched google, this mailing list 
archive, without success. Sorry for if this Email is a bit long, but I got no 
more solutions right now than asking this list. 

Thanks
Fab

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