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Re: cannot start: unable to read controls

To: Daniel Mahoney <dan@catfolks.net>
Subject: Re: cannot start: unable to read controls
From: Markus Stumpf <maex-lists-qmail@leo.org>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:24:05 +0200
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On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 04:24:04PM -0500, Daniel Mahoney wrote:
> I've carefully reviewed my permissions and ownerships, but I've been at 
> this so long I might well have overlooked something. I'll post some 
> details below, in hopes that someone can spot what I'm doing wrong.

Have you also checked the permissions on
    /var
and
    /var/qmail

I once had a problem where /var/qmail was actually a symbolic link to
    /some/other/dir/path
and one of the directories in this path had too restrict permissions and
so qmail was unable to change to its "real home" and read the controls.

        \Maex


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