In the default Qmail ebuild install (1.03-r13), qmail-qmqpd's supervise "run" script is set up to use the "qmqp" service symbolic name to determine the port number to bind to (through inclusion of /var/qmail/control/conf-common), but /etc/services does not contain the entry and therefore qmail-qmqpd fails to start. The fix is simple, just add: qmqp 628/tcp # Qmail QMQP to /etc/services. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge qmail 2. cd /service; ln -s /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-qmqpd 3. tail -f /var/log/qmail/qmail-qmqpd 4. ps -ef | grep qmail, supervise shows a zombie process (tcpserver has died because of the missing service name) Actual Results: tail -f /var/log/qmail/qmail-qmqpd/current: @4000000042932a9f21308f24 Some error detected, sleeping for 30 seconds for safety @4000000042932abd221f4c54 Some error detected, sleeping for 30 seconds for safety @4000000042932adb23155c84 Some error detected, sleeping for 30 seconds for safety Expected Results: ps -ef | grep qmail-qmqpd should show: root 5484 5466 0 May18 ? 00:00:02 supervise qmail-qmqpd qmaill 5488 5485 0 May18 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/multilog t s2500000 /var/log/qmail/qmail-qmqpd qmaild 16691 5484 0 09:23 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/tcpserver -v -R -x /etc/tcp.qmqp.cdb -c 40 -u 201 -g 200 0.0.0.0 628 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qmqpd as well as this line in /var/qmail/qmail-qmqpd/current @4000000042932af9241309ec tcpserver: status: 0/40 Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11.7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11.7 i686 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, May 9 2005, 11:00:40)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.8.5-r3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.6.3, 1.4_p6, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r7 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control /var/vpopmail/domains /var/vpopmail/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://tlfdns2/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt curl emboss encode foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gpm gtk2 imap imlib ipv6 jpeg libg++ libwww mad maildir mikmod motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qmail quicktime readline spell ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts xml xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Created attachment 59709 [details, diff] Tiny /etc/services patch
go and use a newer qmail release ebuild.
