I'm attempting to replace a failing Plesk/DrWeb/qmail installation with
a fresh, clean netqmail install. After backing up all the
Plesk-installed qmail stuff (this is a live server, I'm afraid) I've
gotten started on the install.
I've gotten pretty well through the lifewithqmail install instructions,
but I've got a problem. When I try to start qmail via /var/qmail/rc I
get a message reading "alert: cannot start: unable to read controls".
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.
/var/qmail/rc contains:
#!/bin/sh
# Using stdout for logging
# Using control/defaultdelivery from qmail-local to deliver messages by
default
#exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" /var/qmail/bin/qmail-start "`cat
/var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery`"
exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" /var/qmail/bin/qmail-start ./Maildir/
My permissions look like:
[root@ce qmail]# ls -Al
total 56
drwxr-sr-x 2 alias qmail 4096 Aug 9 08:55 alias
drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail 4096 Aug 9 15:46 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail 4096 Aug 9 08:55 boot
drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail 4096 Aug 9 15:29 control
drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail 4096 Aug 9 08:49 doc
drwxr-xr-x 338 root qmail 12288 Aug 8 12:54 mailnames
drwxr-xr-x 10 root qmail 4096 Aug 9 08:49 man
drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail 4096 Aug 9 08:55 plugins
drwxr-x--- 11 qmailq qmail 4096 Aug 9 08:55 queue
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 306 Aug 9 16:17 rc
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Aug 9 14:52 supervise
drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail 4096 Aug 9 13:27 users
[root@ce qmail]# ls -Al control
total 64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 22 Feb 16 2006 badmailfrom
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root qmail 33 Aug 9 08:55 clientcert.pem
-> /var/qmail/control/servercert.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 3 Aug 9 15:09 concurrencyincoming
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 11 Aug 9 15:29 defaultdelivery
-rw------- 1 qmaild qmail 245 Apr 23 2005 dh1024.pem
-rw------- 1 qmaild qmail 156 Apr 23 2005 dh512.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 10 Apr 23 2005 locals
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 18 May 4 2005 me
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 5 Dec 14 2005 queuelifetime
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 5335 Aug 8 12:58 rcpthosts
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 118 Aug 8 12:54 rejectnonexist
-rw------- 1 qmaild qmail 497 Apr 23 2005 rsa512.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 3295 Apr 23 2005 servercert.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 25 May 6 2005 smtpplugins
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 6467 Aug 8 12:58 virtualdomains
[root@ce qmail]# ls -Al bin
total 4436
-r-sr-xr-x 1 root qmail 1259560 May 6 2005 autoresponder
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 8808 Aug 9 15:20 bouncesaying
-r-sr-xr-x 1 root root 984516 May 6 2005 cmd5checkpw
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 15520 Aug 9 15:20 condredirect
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 134 Aug 9 15:20 datemail
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 118 Aug 9 15:20 elq
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 8744 Aug 9 15:20 except
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 13400 Aug 9 15:20 forward
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8101 Apr 30 2006 inst_check
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 17940 Aug 9 15:20 maildir2mbox
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 8256 Aug 9 15:20 maildirmake
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 16284 Aug 9 15:20 maildirwatch
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 183 Aug 9 15:20 mailsubj
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 33540 May 6 2005 matchup
-r-xr-sr-x 1 root mail 4748 May 6 2005 mm_wrapper
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 119 Aug 9 15:20 pinq
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 12076 Aug 9 15:20 predate
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 12516 Aug 9 15:20 preline
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 119 Aug 9 15:20 qail
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 11180 Aug 9 15:20 qbiff
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 9400 Aug 9 15:20 qmail-clean
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3053 Aug 9 14:58 qmailctl
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 5672 Aug 9 15:20 qmail-getpw
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 34476 Aug 9 15:20 qmail-inject
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 59367 May 6 2005
qmail_install_post.sh
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 34672 Aug 9 15:20 qmail-local
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 16388 Aug 9 15:20 qmail-lspawn
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 15664 Aug 9 15:20 qmail-newmrh
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 11548 Aug 9 15:20 qmail-newu
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 20588 Aug 9 15:20 qmail-pop3d
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 11728 Aug 9 15:20 qmail-popup
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 16284 Aug 9 15:20 qmail-pw2u
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 12432 Aug 9 15:20 qmail-qmqpc
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 15708 Aug 9 15:20 qmail-qmqpd
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 21096 Aug 9 15:20 qmail-qmtpd
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 15864 Aug 9 15:20 qmail-qread
-r-s--x--x 1 root qmail 43657 Aug 8 15:03 qmail-qsheff
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 375 Aug 9 15:20 qmail-qstat
-rws--x--x 1 root root 12012 Aug 9 15:20 qmail-queue
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 25512 Aug 9 15:20 qmail-remote
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 15916 Aug 9 15:20 qmail-rspawn
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 37920 Aug 9 15:20 qmail-send
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 14944 Aug 9 15:20 qmail-showctl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 25876 Aug 9 15:20 qmail-smtpd
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 5652 Aug 9 15:20 qmail-start
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 8560 Aug 9 15:20 qmail-tcpok
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 10860 Aug 9 15:20 qmail-tcpto
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 20832 Aug 9 15:20 qreceipt
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 10768 Aug 9 15:20 qsmhook
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 979924 May 6 2005 relaylock
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 9376 Aug 9 15:20 sendmail
-r-sr-xr-x 1 root root 20732 May 6 2005 smtp_auth
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 6692 Aug 9 15:20 splogger
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 16528 Aug 9 15:19 tcp-env
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 2832 May 6 2005 true
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