daemontools

suggestion to insert install of build-essentials etc on this page.

GoofY March 4, 2023 09:06

is it an idea to put the following already here instead of on page installing and configuring vpopmail?:

apt install build-essential autoconf automake libmariadb-dev libmariadb-dev-compat

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suggestion to insert install of build-essentials etc on this page.

Roberto Puzzanghera GoofY March 4, 2023 19:55

I created a page with the preinstallation tasks, where this and other preliminary tasks are covered. Fill free to post other hints 

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suggestion to insert install of build-essentials etc on this page.

Roberto Puzzanghera GoofY March 4, 2023 09:09

ok, inserted

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make: not found

Thuan March 5, 2020 04:18

Hi everybody .

i had a problem need your help :

- when i run a command line :

# package/install 

i see : 

Linking ./src/* into ./compile...
Compiling everything in ./compile...
package/compile: 20: exec: make: not found . 

help me , pls .

thanks.

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make: not found

Roberto Puzzanghera Thuan March 5, 2020 07:56

I think that you should install a C compiler. Please refer to your distribution's documentation for the purpose

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attribute eXecute to "run" file

Marco Varanda February 16, 2020 14:43

Hello,

I´m doing a procedure to install qmail to CentOS 8 (systemd)

run file gets 644 attribute, should we change to 744 ?

Thanks for your work !

Marco Varanda

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attribute eXecute to

Roberto Puzzanghera Marco Varanda February 16, 2020 14:58

yes

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Supervise not running on debian

Jmecherie August 24, 2019 07:45

If you receive error: Error supervise not running
It's because daemontools/svscanboot is not starting from sysvinit inittab.

To start from systemd:

cat > /lib/systemd/system/daemontools.service << __EOF__
[Unit]
Description=Daemontools service supervision

[Service]
ExecStart=/command/svscanboot /etc/service/
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
__EOF__

systemctl enable daemontools.service
systemctl status daemontools

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Broken link

Gabriel Torres June 19, 2019 00:31

qmail.org  is offline, change:

wget http://www.qmail.org/netqmail-1.06.tar.gz

to

wget https://notes.sagredo.eu/files/qmail/tar/netqmail-1.06.tar.gz

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patch of multilog file size limit

Sam Tang April 6, 2018 11:35

Hi,

This is the little multilog patch I would like to share.

By default multilog only support max 16MB log file, for my email server, 16MB only can save 5 hours log, so I made this little patch, and change multilog file limit to 100MB, here how to apply:

cd /usr/local/src
wget https://www.phpini.com/files/multilog_filesize_limit.patch
cd /var/qmail/admin/daemontools
patch -p1 < /usr/local/src/multilog_filesize_limit.patch
package/install

and then update log/run file/s, now can assign file size to s104857600 (100MB).

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patch of multilog file size limit

Roberto Puzzanghera Sam Tang April 6, 2018 19:55

thank you, Sam.. I'll add it asap

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clear service

Ivelin Topalov February 6, 2018 10:17

the creation of clear service is non understandeable and not well described

cat > clear/run < 

syntax error near unexpected token `newline'

what must do run to clear ?

no link creation for service clear

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clear service

Roberto Puzzanghera Ivelin Topalov February 6, 2018 12:10

thank you, corrected

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But how do you set the PATH so daemontools can run properly?

Dave Martin March 10, 2012 20:04

I tried installing daemontools exactly as outlined above.  But qmailctl start fails because it can't find svc, svok, etc.  I researched on the web, and it appears that the issue is with daemontools not being found in the PATH.  I've tried updating the path in /etc/profile, and in /etc/inittab (when launching svscan).  Although ps -ef | grep svscan demonstrates that svscan is running, qmailctl can't seem to find scripts in the /command folder.

(Per your suggestion, I'm trying to do this install on Slackware  (version 13.37).)

I also tried running ./rts > rts.out (as mentioned in Dave Sill's book, "Life With Qmail") but it bombs on every line--again complaining 'command not found' one line after the next.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for your response.

-Dave Martin

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Hi Dave, first of all thanks

roberto puzzanghera Dave Martin March 10, 2012 20:55

Hi Dave, first of all thanks a lot for your support.

You should have this PATH inside the /command/svscanboot script:

PATH=/command:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin

qmail should start by means of a line inside /etc/inittab

SV:123456:respawn:/command/svscanboot

so, you may want to check that svscanboot was actually launched on boot, or try to run it manually. I prefer to have it in my rc.local

fyi, I have tested everything on a slackware64 13.37

cheers :)

Roberto

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Daemantools with systemd

hifs roberto puzzanghera January 11, 2014 14:38

if your linux using systemd

remove SV:123456:repawn:/command/svscanboot from /etc/inittab

create a file at /lib/systemd/system/daemontools.service
edit as

[Unit]
 Description=DJB daemontools
 After=syslog.target network.target

[Service]
 ExecStart=/command/svscanboot
 Restart=always

[Install]
 WantedBy=multi-user.target

copy links

ln -s /lib/systemd/system/daemontools.service /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants

reboot ur system

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I confirmed the settings you gave, but still not working

Dave Martin roberto puzzanghera March 12, 2012 12:15

qmailctl start continues to return errors on line 17: svok: command not found 

However, ps -ef | grep svscan returns the following:

root 1886 1 0 Mar10 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh /command/svscanboot
root 1948 1886 0 Mar10 ? 00:00:02 svscan /service
root 9379 6093 0 01:12 pts/0 00:00:00 grep svscan

Could there be a permissions issue with the qmail user accounts?  Does the qmail group need to be granted permission to in order to run the daemontool utilities?

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It's seems like the

roberto puzzanghera Dave Martin March 12, 2012 13:51

It's seems like the daemontools' installation has failed... can you post please:

ls -l /command/
ps axfuww

anyway feel free to contact me in private using the contact button above

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