From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 8 15: 1:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.rdc3.on.home.com (mail1.rdc3.on.home.com [24.2.9.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE1D137B51E for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 15:01:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from antipode@thpoon.com) Received: from tea.thpoon.com ([24.114.152.71]) by mail1.rdc3.on.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <20000308230113.KEAI19066.mail1.rdc3.on.home.com@tea.thpoon.com> for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 15:01:13 -0800 Received: from antipode by tea.thpoon.com with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 12SpS5-0001x3-00 for ; Wed, 08 Mar 2000 18:01:13 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: qmail wrecked after system rebuild (with NO_SENDMAIL) X-Face: 0=A/O5-+sE[Tf%X>rYr?Y5LD4,:^'jaJ!4jC&UR*ZrrK2>^`g22Qeb]!:d;}2YJ|Hq"LHdF OX`jWX|AT-WVFQ(TPhFVak)0nt$aEdlOq=1~D,:\z5QlVOrZ2(H,mKg=Xr|'VlHA="r Organization: Wgaf From: Arcady Genkin Date: 08 Mar 2000 18:01:13 -0500 Message-ID: <87ya7tnk1y.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> Lines: 35 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) XEmacs/21.1 (Bryce Canyon) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I replaced sendmail for qmail about two months ago. Everything was working perfectly, unil I had to rebuild the whole system (I set NO_SENDMAIL=true in /etc/make.conf) [see p.s.]. After I rebuilt I didn't reboot for another couple of days, and qmail still worked fine. Today in the morning, after a reboot, my mail system is wrecked. I use fetchmail to receive mail from my ISP. After a few hours with no mail at all, I got worried and started poking around. I could not even send myself a test message on the same machine. It would dissappear... After some more time I found that my /var/qmail/queue/intd, /var/qmail/queue/mess, and /var/qmail/queue/todo contain a bunch of files, which appear to be the undelivered messages. [Sigh of relief -- at least the mail isn't lost!] What could have gone wrong? Does qmail keep a log file somewhere? I couldn't locate it. p.s. A correction: I did "make buildworld" without the NO_SENDMAIL flag. It was only than that I became aware of this flag, and set it in make.conf as well as passed it to make (I did "make -DNO_SENDMAIL installworld"). p.p.s. Don't know if it's relevant, but when I recompiled this time I changed the name of the kernel config file. p.p.p.s The system rebuild was from 3.4-R into 3.4-R (no major changes). Thank you very much for any input!!! -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message