Comments on: Ubuntu Qmail HOWTO

By: Paralipsis » Blog Archive » Configuring Daemontools under Ubuntu (upstart)

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:33:38 +0000

[...] With the moving of ubuntu from the old fashioned init to the modern upstart, the daemontools package doesn’t cleanly install. Here’s how to fix it. You really do need daemontools if you’re going to run djbdns or qmail. [...]

By: caskey

caskey — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 03:09:37 +0000

Well, forcing all isn’t necessary to install the package. You’re probably missing the inetd package which is a prerequisite for qmail. Consider not forcing anything.

By: mariuz

mariuz — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:40:29 +0000

I have the same issue with qmail on hardy/

dpkg –force-all -i /tmp/qmail/qmail_1.03-44_amd64.deb
(Reading database … 93196 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking qmail (from …/qmail/qmail_1.03-44_amd64.deb) …
Performing install
First installation of the Debian qmail package…
Checking if qmail is already installed on this computer… no.
Checking group qmail (gid 64010)… ok.
Checking user alias (uid 64010, gid 65534, homedir /var/qmail/alias)… ok.
Checking user qmaild (uid 64011, gid 65534, homedir /var/qmail)… ok.
Checking user qmails (uid 64012, gid 64010, homedir /var/qmail)… ok.
Checking user qmailr (uid 64013, gid 64010, homedir /var/qmail)… ok.
Checking user qmailq (uid 64014, gid 64010, homedir /var/qmail)… ok.
Checking user qmaill (uid 64015, gid 65534, homedir /var/qmail)… ok.
Checking user qmailp (uid 64016, gid 65534, homedir /var/qmail)… ok.
Could not open /etc/inetd.conf
dpkg: error processing /tmp/qmail/qmail_1.03-44_amd64.deb (–install):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
/tmp/qmail/qmail_1.03-44_amd64.deb

By: EMRUFUS

EMRUFUS — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 21:26:20 +0000

qmail-pop3d.c:48: warning: conflicting types for built-in function â€˜putsâ€™
qmail-pop3d.c: In function â€˜mainâ€™:
qmail-pop3d.c:297: warning: return type of â€˜mainâ€™ is not â€˜intâ€™

By: EMRUFUS

EMRUFUS — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 21:17:16 +0000

Trying to install qmail on ubuntu edgy.
dpkg: error processing qmail_1.03-38_i386.deb (–install):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
qmail_1.03-38_i386.deb

Do you want to purge qmail-src now? [yN] y
(Reading database … 109489 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing qmail-src …
Purging configuration files for qmail-src …

Remember that you can install qmail_1.03-38_i386.deb
on other computers so you don’t need to compile it again.

Don’t forget to setup a /etc/qmail/rcpthosts file to prevent open relaying!

Good luck!

By: caskey

caskey — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 06:39:23 +0000

That’s not right. You must be missing something because without an /etc/inittab file your system will not successfully boot. I would check again.

Also, if you are using the packages above, then you don’t launch qmail with svscan in inititab, it is run as a daemon from /etc/init.d as other processes are.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:48:34 +0000

I’ve installed qmail several times on different systems. However, I have one problem on Ubuntu that seems simple, yet stumps me. There seems to be no /etc/inittab file in which to put the entry for svscanboot. So, where should I put the kicker for svscanboot? In /etc/rc.local?

Thanks.

– Jeremy

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By: caskey

caskey — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 05:45:19 +0000

Uniacid,

As mentioned in the comment immediately above yours, there’s a stage in the build process which tells you to open another terminal and apply any desired patches.

CLD

By: uniacid

uniacid — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 02:42:57 +0000

I tried building qmail and everything went fine but I don’t see anywhere to apply patches and the install doesn’t prompt me at all, any ideas?