On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Vincent Danen wrote:
> Hello. I just setup a server for my father and I installed qmail because
> I use it here and it works great. His situation is a little different
> from my own, however. POP3 works great starting from inetd, but qmail
> gives errors. The error I get is:
>
> tcpserver: fatal: unable to figure out port number for geceventures.com
>
> I'm starting qmail-smtpd with:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> QMAILUID=`id -u qmaild`
> NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild`
> exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 2000000 \
> /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcprules.d/smtpd.cdb \
> -u $QMAILUID -g $NOFILESGID geceventures.com 25 \
> /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1
Does "geveventures.com" resolve to an IP address?
Change "geceventures.com" to the IP address of the interfce you wish
to bind to, or make it 0 if you would like to bind to all available
interfaces.
The tcpserver doco says:
tcpserver opts host port prog
...
The server's address is given by host and port. port may be a name
from /etc/services or a number; if it is 0, tcpserver will choose a
free TCP port. host may be 0, allowing connections to any local IP
address; or a dotted-decimal IP address, allowing connections only
to that address; or a host name, allowing connections to the first
IP address for that host. Host names are fed through qualification
using dns_ip4_qualify.
...
Regards
Peter
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