Incomplete Error display

Hi,

I have qmail running except for a little error I could solve, maybe,
if I could just see the whole error message. ps axfw shows:
4854 pts/0 S 0:00 /bin/sh /command/svscanboot
4857 pts/0 S 0:00 \_ svscan /service
4859 pts/0 S 0:00 | \_ supervise qmail-send
4861 pts/0 S 0:00 | | \_ qmail-send
4870 pts/0 S 0:00 | | \_ qmail-lspawn ./Maildir/
4871 pts/0 S 0:00 | | \_ qmail-rspawn
4872 pts/0 S 0:00 | | \_ qmail-clean
4860 pts/0 S 0:00 | \_ supervise log
4862 pts/0 S 0:00 | | \_ multilog -t s100000 n20
/var/log/qmail/qmail-send
4863 pts/0 S 0:00 | \_ supervise qmail-smtpd
4866 pts/0 S 0:00 | | \_ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -l head -1
/var/qmail/control/me -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c 30 -u
4864 pts/0 S 0:00 | \_ supervise log
4929 pts/0 Z 0:00 | | \_ [multilog <defunct>]
4865 pts/0 S 0:00 | \_ supervise qmail-pop3d
4873 pts/0 S 0:00 | | \_ tcpserver -H -R -v -c100 0 110 qmail-popup
luke2.bauercom.net
4876 pts/0 S 0:00 | \_ supervise log
4877 pts/0 S 0:00 | \_ multilog -t s100000 n20
/var/log/qmail/qmail-pop3d
4858 pts/0 S 0:00 \_ readproctitle service errors: ...ory
/var/log/qmail/qmail-send: temporary failure?multilog: fatal: un

How can I get the rest of the last line? Nothing shows in
/var/log/debug,
/var/log/messages, /var/log/syslog or the qmail logs.

This has been a long very frustrating battle but now I think I'm
finally nearing the end.

Thanks
Bob Crandell

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BC> 4929 pts/0 Z 0:00 | | \_ [multilog <defunct>]

<URL:http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/daemontools-service-not-staying-up.html>

BC> How can I get the rest of the last line?

man ps

On 12 Jan 2004 21:51:46 -0800, Bob Crandell <bob@assuredcomp.com> may have written:
> Hi,
>
> I have qmail running except for a little error I could solve, maybe,
> if I could just see the whole error message. ps axfw shows:
> 4854 pts/0 S 0:00 /bin/sh /command/svscanboot
> 4857 pts/0 S 0:00 \_ svscan /service
> 4859 pts/0 S 0:00 | \_ supervise qmail-send
> 4861 pts/0 S 0:00 | | \_ qmail-send
> 4870 pts/0 S 0:00 | | \_ qmail-lspawn ./Maildir/
> 4871 pts/0 S 0:00 | | \_ qmail-rspawn
> 4872 pts/0 S 0:00 | | \_ qmail-clean
> 4860 pts/0 S 0:00 | \_ supervise log
> 4862 pts/0 S 0:00 | | \_ multilog -t s100000 n20
> /var/log/qmail/qmail-send
> 4863 pts/0 S 0:00 | \_ supervise qmail-smtpd
> 4866 pts/0 S 0:00 | | \_ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -l head -1
> /var/qmail/control/me -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c 30 -u
> 4864 pts/0 S 0:00 | \_ supervise log
> 4929 pts/0 Z 0:00 | | \_ [multilog <defunct>]
> 4865 pts/0 S 0:00 | \_ supervise qmail-pop3d
> 4873 pts/0 S 0:00 | | \_ tcpserver -H -R -v -c100 0 110 qmail-popup
> luke2.bauercom.net
> 4876 pts/0 S 0:00 | \_ supervise log
> 4877 pts/0 S 0:00 | \_ multilog -t s100000 n20
> /var/log/qmail/qmail-pop3d
> 4858 pts/0 S 0:00 \_ readproctitle service errors: ...ory
> /var/log/qmail/qmail-send: temporary failure?multilog: fatal: un
>
> How can I get the rest of the last line? Nothing shows in
> /var/log/debug,
> /var/log/messages, /var/log/syslog or the qmail logs.
>
> This has been a long very frustrating battle but now I think I'm
> finally nearing the end.

From what little I can see there, I would assume that multilog is unable
to start. How did you install qmail? Did you follow lifewithqmail.org to
the letter? If you didn't, you might want to consider scrapping your
current setup and doing just that.

Most people on the mailing list and this newsgroup use lifewithqmail.org
as a standard reference point for qmail installs. It has been proven
over time, and It Just Works(tm).

If you have special circumstances such that you cannot follow this
method, please provide information on how you are running qmail-send and
its associated logging.

Cheers,
--
Brian T Glenn
delink.net Internet Services

Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard@Tesco.NET> wrote in message news:<4003FAB4.AF882BB@Tesco.NET>...
> BC> 4929 pts/0 Z 0:00 | | \_ [multilog <defunct>]
>
> <URL:http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/daemontools-service-not-staying-up.html>
>
> BC> How can I get the rest of the last line?
>
> man ps

The man pages don't explain that ps axfww doesn't truncate so I would
have been missing that point if some kind person hadn't answered the
question.

I have it working now. The install is from qmailrocks.org.

Thanks

BC> How can I get the rest of the last line?

JdeBP> man ps

BC> The man pages don't explain that ps axfww doesn't truncate [...]

They do on the Unices where "ps" has the notion of truncation to fit a window
width. (They do on FreeBSD and Tru64, for example.) Bring this omission to
the attention of the author of the "ps" manual page on your system (whatever
that is), in order to have it brought up to par with Unix manual pages.