Re: Qmail behind firewall question

2000-04-23 Thread Jason Brooke
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

Re: Qmail behind firewall question

2000-04-23 Thread Peter Samuel
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

Re: Qmail behind firewall question

2000-04-24 Thread Vincent Danen
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... =( -- [EMAIL PROT

Re: Qmail behind firewall question

2000-04-24 Thread Dave Sill
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

RE: Qmail behind firewall question

2000-04-24 Thread Dave Kitabjian
24, 2000 11:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

RE: Qmail behind firewall question

2000-04-24 Thread Len Budney
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

RE: Qmail behind firewall question

2000-04-24 Thread Dave Sill
"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

RE: Qmail behind firewall question

2000-04-24 Thread Len Budney
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

Re: Qmail behind firewall question

2000-04-25 Thread Vincent Danen
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

Re: Qmail behind firewall question

2000-04-25 Thread Vincent Danen
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

RE: Qmail behind firewall question

2000-04-25 Thread Vincent Danen
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