-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 17-Oct-2002/11:26 -0400, William Mahler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Greetings. >I have a Red Hat 6.2 Mail server. The pop service is shutting it self >down. The message says "pop-3/Tcpp server failing ( looping or being >flooded) service terminated for 10 minutes. Now as most of you can >imagine... My phone rings off the hook when this happens... > >I cannot find anything anywhere that tells me why? Can anyone help?
The inetd daemon is getting too many connections. I think the default is 40 or so per minute. You can increase this by specfying the max number of connections per minute on the pop3 line in inetd.conf: nowait.200 Tony - -- Anthony E. Greene <mailto:agreene@;pobox.com> OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D AOL/Yahoo Chat: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> Linux: the choice of a GNU Generation. <http://www.linux.org/> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Anthony E. Greene 0x6C94239D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> iD8DBQE9rvSNpCpg3WyUI50RAnWOAKC7eS8NupbGXOZor9btHkaQAKs48QCeMM+Q pFVIy7fr6EH9dAX3TERBkxc= =YTH8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
