Re: [cobalt-users] Mailq suddenly gone

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robbert Hamburg (HaVa Web- & Procesdesign)" <user@xxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 3:02 PM
Subject: [cobalt-users] Mailq suddenly gone


> Hi Guys,
>
> Question:
>
> when tailing my maillog on a raq550 i suddenly see the following error
> Sep 18 20:57:21 server2 MailScanner[26119]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner
> version 4.21-9 starting...
> Sep 18 20:57:21 server2 MailScanner[26119]: Could not read directory
> /var/spool/mqueue/q1
> Sep 18 20:57:21 server2 MailScanner[26119]: Error in configuration file
line
> 76, directory /var/spool/mqueue/q1 for outqueuedir does not exist (or is
not
> readable)
>
> i can confirm that the dir is not present
>
> [root admin]# locate /var/spool/mqueue/q1
> [root admin]# cd /var/spool/mqueue/q1
> bash: cd: /var/spool/mqueue/q1: No such file or directory
> [root admin]# cd /var/spool/mqueue/
> [root mqueue]# dir
> [root mqueue]# ls -al
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            6 Sep 18 20:57 .
> drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root           42 Jun 19 09:44 ..
> [root mqueue]#
>
> should i manually attempt to recreate those q1 q2 q3 and a4 ?
>
> If so how should i do that
>
> incoming mail seems to function.....
>
> thanks in advance
>
You will need to manually create that directory. I had the same problem. I
created it and all works fine.
make sure you create it as "root"
Tom