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Title: help multilog: fatal
Post by: Glenn Tm Pettit on January 18, 2003, 01:03:45 AM

multilog: fatal: unable to lock directory /var/log/qmail: access denied...

I keep getting this message... i had to the computer and when i booted it up this was the massage i was getting and the systems MYSql will not start either...

Title: Re: help multilog: fatal
Post by: Charlie Brady on January 18, 2003, 09:43:37 PM

Glenn Tm Pettit wrote:
>
> multilog: fatal: unable to lock directory /var/log/qmail:
> access denied...
>
> I keep getting this message... i had to the computer and when
> i booted it up this was the massage i was getting and the
> systems MYSql will not start either...

You or someone else has changed ownership of /var/log/qmail or changed the uid that multilog is running as, as set in /service/qmail/log/run.

Charlie

Title: Re: help multilog: fatal
Post by: Glenn Tm Pettit on January 21, 2003, 07:21:49 AM

thank you ... that worked