Is your local DNS resolver working correctly (nslookup yahoo.com type deal)?

Doing a little googling, it looks like the second 0 in status 0/0 is the maximum number of concurrent TCP connections, which you have set to zero.

url 1 (google cache)

From other finds:

/service/qmail-smtpd/run:

=========================

!/bin/sh

QMAILDUID='id -u qmaild'

NOFILESGID='id -g qmaild'

MAXSMTPD='cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming'

exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 2000000 \

/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -l 0 -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c "$MAXSMTPD" \

-u "$QMAILDUID" -g "$NOFILESGID" 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1

MAXSMTPD='cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming'

Does this file exist?

-Chris

[BIG SMILE] :D

It's (quasi) working now.

@caker:

Doing a little googling, it looks like the second 0 in status 0/0 is the maximum number of concurrent TCP connections, which you have set to zero.

Interesting – I'm unfamiliar enough with perl that this would have taken me forever without your assistance. Thank you kindly. I completely thought that status 0/0 was the equivalent of a DOS errorlevel where 0 means nothing is wrong… right, I won't take that for granted again.

Here's what I've done: I added 'echo' to the front of the exec command in /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run and found out, like you noted, that the contents of the concurrencyincoming file were not being reported propertly. The file exists, and the spelling and path are exactly the same… but for some reason the script printed the MAXSMTPD variable as text instead of executing the command and printing the contents of the cat command:

Code from /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run:

exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 30000000 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -l head -1 /var/qmail/control/me -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming -u id -u vpopmail -g id -g vpopmail 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd mail.horrox.ca /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /usr/bin/true

So… I just commented out the original MAXSMTPD line in the script (below) and put the contents of the concurrencyincoming line there directly, and now it works. The line I added (for anyone else that gets this problem) was````
MAXSMTPD=30

So… now I'm curious... why would perl have printed the full text 'cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming' instead of inserting the file's contents or an error message? I copied the script right off qmailrocks.org so I can't be the only person to have this setup...

I'm very grateful for your help on that!

j.

(For reference) The original /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run script:

!/bin/sh

QMAILDUID='id -u qmaild'
NOFILESGID='id -g qmaild'
MAXSMTPD='cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming'
exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 2000000 \
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -l 0 -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c "$MAXSMTPD" \
-u "$QMAILDUID" -g "$NOFILESGID" 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1
````

@jsalloum:

So… now I'm curious… why would perl have printed the full text 'cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming' instead of inserting the file's contents or an error message? I copied the script right off qmailrocks.org so I can't be the only person to have this setup…
You wanted back ticks (`) not single quotes ('). Backticks in perl execue the shell commands, quotes are just a string literal.

MAXSMTPD='cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming' 

should hvae been

MAXSMTPD=`cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming` 

-Chris

:) I'm learning a lot today.

Thanks again!

j.

Wherever I copied mine from also had the incorrect quotes. Maybe someone's email client converted them, or some strange conversion happened somewhere in the translation.

The other two 'id' lines are also wrong in both our examples…

-Chris