I've fubar-ed something

Shannon Wheeler swheeler at mcmurraycomputer.com
Tue May 4 21:01:53 UTC 2010


sorry folks,
permissions on /var/mail were not set so dovecot couldn't create locks.

(or new version of dovecot expected different permissions I guess)

Thank you,
Shannon Wheeler
McMurray Computer Experts
780-790-0728

Thanks to Pierre and Eric for suggestions.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shannon Wheeler" <swheeler at mcmurraycomputer.com>
To: <freebsd-isp at freebsd.org>
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 12:42 PM
Subject: I've fubar-ed something


> Apparently after trying my first beer I had a brilliant idea:
>
> I did a port upgrade:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/ports-using.html
> (section 4.5.4.2)
>
> on a production system...
>
> It's a fbsd 6.2, running sendmail, dovecot, apache basically.
> I wanted to install Drupal 6 but it gave an error about needing lib2.2.
>
> Now, the problem is:
> I can receive mail with a pop3 client, but if that client deletes the 
> mail, it will receive it again a few minutes later.
> I haven't yet figured out whether it's sendmail or dovecot.
>
> The system generally runs long enough between problems that I forget 
> everything about troubleshooting each time.
>
> any ideas?
>
> Thank you,
> Shannon Wheeler
>
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