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qmail on linux
having problems, same that I had with v0.96 before giving up.

I get upto step 11 in the INSTALL file when I run

env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" qmail-start splogger qmail &

I get the running message in /var/adm/messages but when I do
ps -x |grep qmail I only have qmail-lspawn running.

what is going wrong, can anyone help, would anyone with linux experience
care to do a bit of handholding ?

I would like to get qmail running, but so far I am unable even though you
guys on the list say it is easy.

thanks
k.



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Re: qmail on linux [ In reply to ]
You write:
>
>env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" qmail-start splogger qmail &
>
>I get the running message in /var/adm/messages but when I do
>ps -x |grep qmail I only have qmail-lspawn running.
>
>what is going wrong, can anyone help, would anyone with linux experience
>care to do a bit of handholding ?

Its the argument to ps. On my machine I see:

7:34:22 kronix1088> ps -x | egrep mail
29249 pr0 S 0:00 egrep mail

7:38:35 kronix1089> ps -ax | egrep mail
23689 ? SW 0:00 (qmail-inject)
24256 ? S 0:04 qmail-lspawn
29250 ? S 0:00 tcp-env /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
24258 ? S 0:01 qmail-clean
24257 ? S 0:00 qmail-rspawn
24253 ? S 0:12 qmail-send
24255 ? S 0:03 logger -p mail.info -t qmail
29252 pr0 S 0:00 egrep mail

Do man ps and read about -a.

Eric Krohn