Being a newbi as alex in qmail an other things. You guys have to understand that alot of the manuals are made for linux users and not newbies. The text as well as explination of alot of the commands do not make any sense at all to someone that is new. If the manuals were also out with text that were in simpler terms which others that are not gurus can understand -----Original Message----- From: Mate Wierdl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 02, 1999 8:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Howto I believe the point was that you read your car manual to see where the power connects are for the stereo your also reading a manual for to install. Or, in other words, read your linux manual to learn how to use your inetd correctly while you read the qmail manual as you install it. You guys make this issue way too academic. Instead of lecturing Alex what he was supposed to do, it would have been better to read his startup command he put in inetd.conf: he was trying to run tcpserver from it. The qmail-smtpd startup command in INSTALL works perfectly well with RH Linux---or any other Linux I have seen. Do not forget, that command is used by D Summer's rpm... Mate