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Unhappy Problem installing qmail Centos5.3(final) Red hat 4
hi, i had a problem with qmail and i looked in log file and there it just kept saying tha"oh no! lost spawn connection! dying...".
I searched google and found out that there is a patch for this:
Gentoo Bug 68173 - qmail-start crashes when trying to start up qmail, because of a problem with Itaniums and spawn.c

Now, i uninstalled qmail using:
rpm -e psa-qmail-1.03-cos5.build86080930.08 --nodeps

and now i want to install it again using:
rpm -Uvh --force http://autoinstall.plesk.com/PSA_8.6...30.08.i586.rpm

but i get the following message:

[root@lnx1 ~]# rpm -Uvh --force http://autoinstall.plesk.com/PSA_8.6.0/dist-rpm- CentOS-5-i386/base/psa-qmail-1.03-cos5.build86080930.08.i586.rpm
Retrieving http://autoinstall.plesk.com/PSA_8.6...5-i386/base/ps a-qmail-1.03-cos5.build86080930.08.i586.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
Checking for the system groups and users necessary for Qmail...
Checking for the group 'qmail'...

ERROR: It seems that there is group qmail
in your system. Plesk uses the same group
name but with another group ID (2520).
Unfortunately, this situation has not yet been
resolved.
Please, visit Customer Service and Support for assistance.

Exiting...

error: %pre(psa-qmail-1.03-cos5.build86080930.08.i586) scriptlet failed, exit st atus 1
error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping psa-qmail-1.03-cos5.build8 6080930.08

Can you please help me with this . I searched google and nothing..
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Hmm,

From what I can see is, there is a group on the system called QMAIL. And the software may need to create that group and use it to run.

Try this:


Code:
Prompt>groupdel qmail
And try the install process again.

Just a Suggestion.

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Smile tried but now it says that it cannot be removed
[root@lnx1 ~]# groupdel qmail
groupdel: cannot remove user's primary group.

And i found aout that i cannot remove the group if there are others users in it.

How can i find which users belongs to this group ?
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You can use this option to remove the user as well as the group.

Code:
Prompt>userdel -r qmail
Code:
Prompt>userdel qmail

Try the -f force option as well. If the -r does not do it.


Then try again,

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Smile tried what you said and didn`t work
[root@lnx1 ~]# userdel -r qmail
userdel: user qmail does not exist

[root@lnx1 ~]# userdel -f qmail
userdel: user qmail does not exist
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Sorry I meant to try:

Code:
Prompt>groupdel -rf qmail
Give that a shot. And rerun the installer rpm.

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Default tried but says that the command isn`t good
Tried
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[root@lnx1 /]# groupdel -rf qmail
Usage: groupdel group
but didn`t work
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How about just the -r option.

So:

Code:
groupdel -r qmail
This should try to delete any user associated with the gmail group. Red Hat may not have that option.

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tried it and same response:

[root@lnx1 /]# groupdel -r qmail
Usage: groupdel group
[root@lnx1 /]# groupdel qmail -r
Usage: groupdel group
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Hey,

Also to try to locate the user that is in the group qmail that is preventing you from removing the group. Try this:


Code:
cat /etc/group | grep qmail
Once you find a user associated with the qmail group. Try to delete them with the:

Code:
userdel user
command. Then try the installer again.


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