The is an inetd error message. Switch to tcpserver for qmail. inetd has
a "feature" of disabling services that it thinks are being spawned too
quickly. This is in the FAQ!
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>
> Hey everyone,
>
> the message that I am getting is "smtp/tcp server failing (looping),
> service terminated." Can anyone shed a bit of light on this?? Now I will
> say that we were running a contest on our WWW page with all the entries
> (40,000+ e-mails) being handled by the Qmail server...could that have
> anything to do with it? I did a cold reboot and now it's been fine for
> about 20 hours.....any ideas? I really don't like the idea of having to
> reboot the machine either- it's been up for 11days....
>
> thanks for all your help,
>
> Bernie Courtney
> Z100 New York Radio Engineering
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
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Timothy L. Mayo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Senior Systems Administrator
localconnect(sm)
http://www.localconnect.net/
The National Business Network Inc. http://www.nb.net/
One Monroeville Center, Suite 850
Monroeville, PA 15146
(412) 810-8888 Phone
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