Topic: Interesting problems after upgrading

[Andrew Hodgson]

Hi,

Recently after the other hardware I ran SME on with no problems died got a Compaq machine (Compaq Deskpro 4000 P166) very cheaply.  It is one of the weirdest machines I have used, the bios setup being on two floppy disks, actually running in a very small win 3.1 installation!!!

What this means: I install SME and everything works fine apart from the following:

1.  Intermitent DNS server shutdown: When this happens the service seems to be stopped, and I can't find anything in any logs regarding this.  I reinstalled SME and started over with this problem.

2.  Every fifteen minutes when the system should pool for mail I get a message from Cron to my email telling me there is no such file as etc/fetchmail (this file exists and works if you just enter the details in this file on the command line).

Any ideas?
Tia
Andrew.

[Andrew Hodgson]

Hi,

Sorry to follow up, but I did some fiddling and found the problem was due to /etc/startmail, which I subsequently re-expanded.

now I get the following from Cron:

/bin/bash: /etc/startmail: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied

Any other templates worth expanding again?
Andrew.

[Andrew Hodgson]

Hi,

I have reinstalled and found the same thing happens on a clean install, I have shut everything down and the project will start up again in May, hopefully with some sensible hardware as there are some weird things on that Compaq!

Andrew.

[Stan Coleman]

I've encountered the same problem. Re-expanding the template only worked once and the notices went away for about a day. Before I re-expanded the template I didn't even have a file call /etc/startmail. After the re-expansion the file showed up. Now I have the file but I'm still getting the errors telling me that it can't be found. Could the be a chmod or chown problem?