A while ago you posted about qmail

[Roland Giesler]

Hi all,

I've installed qmail but for some or other reason I cannot log on to the
pop3 service.  I keeps saying "authorisation failed".

readproctitle reports:
# ps -aux | grep readproc
root     130  0.0  0.0   860   72 con- S    Wed05PM   2:07.15 readproctitle
service errors: ...r directory\nhead: /var/qmail/control/me: No such file or
directory\nhead: /var/qmail/control/me: No suc...

This looks quite similar to a problem I found rescrived on a mailing list
somewhere but no solution was posted with it.  Could anybody help to shed
some light on this.  I'm quite new to FreeBSD and qmail, but I cannot find
much on either readproctitle or the actual error with qmail-pop3d as far as
troubleshooting goes and have checked every step of my installation many
times.

Additional information:
# svstat /service/* /service/*
/service/qmail-pop3d: up (pid 142) 259012 seconds
/service/qmail-send: up (pid 24352) 1 seconds
/service/qmail-smtpd: up (pid 24357) 0 seconds
/service/qmail-pop3d: up (pid 142) 259012 seconds
/service/qmail-send: up (pid 24352) 1 seconds
/service/qmail-smtpd: up (pid 24357) 0 seconds

# qmailctl stat
/service/qmail-send: up (pid 24723) 0 seconds
/service/qmail-send/log: up (pid 746) 2471 seconds
/service/qmail-smtpd: up (pid 24728) 0 seconds
/service/qmail-smtpd/log: up (pid 751) 2471 seconds
messages in queue: 98
messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 98

My /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-pop3/run script contains:
!/bin/sh
PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
export PATH
exec tcpserver -H -R -v -c100 -u0 -g0 0 110 qmail-popup theempire.co.za \
/home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw qmail-pop3d Maildir 2>&1

Regards

Roland Giesler