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On 17-Oct-2002/20:26 +0200, Ernest E Vogelsinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>At 18:28 17.10.2002, Emmanuel Seyman said:
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>>On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 11:26:26AM -0400, William Mahler wrote:
>>This isn't really your pop3 server but inetd (which controls
>>several ports including the pop3 one). To prevent flooding,
>>it automatically shuts itself down for 10 minutes if it registers
>>more than 40 connections per minute.
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>
>maybe you can help me with this, too - two days ago I upgraded RH7.2 with
>the last errata, also the xinetd security fix.
>
>Since then, on one machine, xinetd will keep vpop3d dysfunct (ps status
>'Z') and no more honor connects on port 110, in irregular intervals. The
>only remedy is to restart xinetd.

See the xinetd.conf man page for several settings that specify limits. The
ones most likely to be useful are cps, max_load, and rlimit_as.

Tony
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