On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Czeh Istvan wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm running qmail-smtpd from xinetd, and now I need to allow SMTP relay for
> the localhost.
>
> I've read FAQ 5.4, and I configured xinetd like this:
>
> service smtp
> {
> socket_type = stream
> protocol = tcp
> wait = no
> instances = 32
> flags = REUSE
> user = qmaild
> server = /usr/sbin/tcpd
> server_args = /usr/local/qmail/bin/tcp-env /usr/local/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
> }
>
> In /etc/hosts.allow the RELAYCLIENT has been set:
>
> tcp-env: 127.0.0.1 , 193.6.41.140 : setenv RELAYCLIENT
>
>
> After all this if I try to telnet to the smtp port, qmail-smtpd doesn't
> respond:
>
> % telnet localhost 25
> Trying 193.6.41.140...
> Connected to hal2000.hal.vein.hu.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> ^]
> telnet>
tcpd doesn't work as-is w/ xinetd.
tcpd relies on tcpd's ability to let you define argv[0].
xinetd defines this for you.
The easiest "fix" is to advance the argv pointer (argv++;) in
the main() function for tcpd, to get rid of of argv[0]. I've been
running tcpd under xinetd like that for years now.
-Dustin
