daemontools

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

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

ok, inserted

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.

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

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

yes

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

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

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).

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

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

thank you, corrected

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

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

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

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?

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