Re: Qmail install success on 1.4; possible package bug?

[Tim Darby <t-df@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 09:22:27PM -0700, Tim Darby wrote:
> > Thanks for the suggestions!  I installed qmail totally manually, since I
> > didn't see a DFly package for it.
>
> There is no binary package because it can't be build without patching
> and therefore the package is restricted.
>
> Joerg

Joerg,

I noticed there is a binary package for Qmail now.  Thanks!  I tried it, 
but it seemed to only partially work.  That is, it installed all the 
binaries, but qmail-send failed to start.  Qmail-smtpd and Qmail-pop3d 
do start.  When I looked into what was going on, I found that the 
installer had not created the file /var/qmail/queue/lock/sendmutex. 
Beyond that, it hadn't created any of the subdirectories or files under 
/var/qmail/queue.  After manually creating sendmutex, I found that 
qmail-send still wouldn't start and that's when I noticed that lspawn 
and rspawn, which send depends on, weren't starting either.  I haven't 
had time to figure out the problem with those and they don't give any 
errors when they fail.

Thanks again for the package work,
Tim