[Remops] Running a Pinger with Qmail and Vpopmail

marlowe marlowe at antagonism.org
Thu Apr 12 13:16:56 BST 2007


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marlowe wrote:
> All,
> 
> I want to run a pinger (echolot 2.1.8).  My server uses qmail and
> vpopmail.  All my domains are virtualdomains, no local domains.  Pingd
> starts successfully, it adds the four addresses as expected and sends
> the appropriate emails out.  A review of my qmail-send logs and a check
> of the appropriate Maildir under ~vpopmail shows the messages being
> received.  However, I don't see any change to mlist2.html.  I believe
> this is due to the pinger user not being able to access the Maildir
> directory.  I attempted to start the pingd process as root to verify
> this idea, but pingd doesn't allow itself to be run as root.  Can
> someone please point me in the right direction to resolving this issue?
> 
> Thanks,
> Patrick

The pinger is now up and running.  I will let it run for a few days just
to make sure everything works as expected.  After that, just a few
tweaks to the conf file to make sure everything displays properly and it
is all set.  What do I need to do to have the pinger included in the
stats page?

Patrick
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