Error Installing

[Julian Field]

At 23:31 21/05/2002, you wrote:
>Richard at Quarryhouse wrote:
> >
> > On attempting to install Mailscanner on my Cobalt RaQ4R, all seemed to go
> > OK until I got to start MailScanner. I then got the following error:
> >
> > [root etc]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/mailscanner start
> > Starting MailScanner: makemap: /etc/mail/virtusertable: line 1085: key
> > metalawca at www.jonskichov.co.uk: duplicate key
> > /var/spool/mqueue.in and /var/spool/mqueue must be on the same
> > filesystem/partition! at /usr/local/MailScanner/bin/logger.pl line 60.
> >
> > Richard
>
>Richard,
>
><SNIP>
>
>The second warning indicates that you don't have all the symbolic links
>between
>/var/spool and /home/spool set up correctly.  See the RaQFaQ mentioned
>above.  You probably created /var/spool/mqueue.in rather than creating
>/home/spool/mqueue.in and symbolically linking /var/spool/mqueue.in to it.

This is necessary due to the fact that Sun set up their partitions somewhat
less than optimally (to be kind). They didn't have enough space in the root
partition for all the stuff they needed in /var, and didn't make a separate
partition for /var, only /home. So various things (include the sendmail
queues) were put in /home/spool with soft-links from /var/spool.
MailScanner insists on the mqueue.in and mqueue directories being on the
same filesystem, so you have to soft-link neither or both, but not just 1
of them.

I don't know quite how to detect that I'm running on an unfixed Raq system
when I install, I don't want to just test for whether /var/spool/mqueue is
a link, something rather more robust than that. If I could, I would detect
the system and set up the correct link for mqueue.in automatically.

Any Raq users out there got any brilliany ideas on this one?
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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ