In my experience, that error is caused when the value you enter for the port
isn't listed in /etc/services
jason
> 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
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
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Jason Brooke wrote:
> In my experience, that error is caused when the value you enter for the port
> isn't listed in /etc/services
That's kinda what I thought, which is why I explicitly defined port 25 in
there... but that doesn't seem to be the issue... =(
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Vincent Danen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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 200 \
> /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /et
24, 2000 11:49 AM
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Subject: Re: Qmail behind firewall question
Vincent Danen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>tcpserver: fatal: unable to figure out port number for geceventures.com
>
>I'm starting qmail-smtpd with:
>
>#!/bin/sh
>QMAILUID=`id -u qmaild
Dave Kitabjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> What about removing the "exec" completely? I don't see why exec is
> necessary...
It's necessary to save one process. Otherwise, the script itself
continues running, doing nothing except waiting for the tcpserver
process to exit.
(Decent sysadmin typ
"Len Budney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Dave Kitabjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> ...and I don't know if your script variables will be passed
>> into the new process created by the exec.
>
>They won't, in the script below. You must export the shell variables
>into the environment, or they w
Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Len Budney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >export QMAILUID NOFILESGID
>
> Yes, but there's no need to pass QMAILUID and NOFILESGID to softlimit,
> tcpserver, or qmail-smtpd. They're only needed by the shell that does
> the exec, and it expands them before d
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Peter Samuel 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
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Dave Sill wrote:
> >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 200 \
> > /usr/local/bin/tcpserv
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Dave Kitabjian wrote:
> What about removing the "exec" completely?
>
> I don't see why exec is necessary, and I don't know if your script
> variables will be passed into the new process created by the exec.
No, the exec part is ok. I had put a type-o in one of the variabl
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