Well, I DEFINITELY HUP'd. In fact, in addition, I halted the system and restarted. Well, I don't know what "adjustments to my inetd's needs" are. If I recall, it specified that file locations of the programs, which were correct and the same on my system. So, I guess, in that sense, I "botched" the inetd setup for smtp on my system. What "adjustments" are required? Oh, wait, if inetd became unsupoorted after 1.03 why isn't it just stricken from the tarball docs? But I am curious. Alex Miller > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, July 01, 1999 9:58 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Howto > > > "Alex Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> BTW, you really should use tcpserver from [ucspi-tcp]. Inetd doesn't > >> work very well and is unsupported with qmail. > > > >Certainly on my system, smtp did NOT function when I placed the > same command > >in my inetd as per the tarball instructions but when I installed > the Memphis > >RPM, which uses the ucsi-tcpserver instead, smtp worked. > > In all likelihood, you botched the inetd.conf entry and/or didn't HUP > inetd after updating it. The DJB tarball instructions give an example > inetd.conf entry that doesn't work with every inetd in existence. Dan > wrongly assumed that the installer could/would adjust the entry > according to their inetd's needs. > > >Is there a tarball for qmail that directs you to use and provide > >installation steps for ucsi-tcpserver. > > "Life with qmail" goes through a detailed tarball installation that > uses daemontools and ucspi-tcp. See: > http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#installation It also leaves you with a handy administrative interface that supports such commands as: "qmail start": start qmail "qmail stop": stop qmail "qmail stat": show the status of the qmail system "qmail cdb": rebuild the tcpcontrol cdb file for smtp "qmail restart": shut qmail down and restart it "qmail doqueue": tell qmail-send to try to deliver all queued mail "qmail reload": reread locals and virtualdomains "qmail queue": show status of the queue "qmail pause": temporarily pause qmail "qmail cont": continues paused qmail >Also, if qmail doesn't support the inetd why does the install >instructions say to install it that way? Inetd became unsupported after the release of 1.03. -Dave
