You're right Ken, the culprit is this cron job: after it runs all the
vadd-ed virtual domains are gone!
Eudes
$ cat /etc/cron.hourly/qmail
#!/bin/sh
qmail-pw2u </etc/passwd >/var/qmail/users/assign && qmail-newu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 12:48 PM
> To: Eudes Habambyingwe
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: strange qmail-pop3d authentication failure
>
>
> Eudes Habambyingwe wrote:
> >
> > I am installed vpopmail 4.9.3 on RH 6.2.
> > Shortly after I vadddomain virtual.com, I can 'telnet
> localhost pop3' and
> > authenticate successfully as [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can
> even signup
> > through qmailadmin web interface. But after some time (+/-
> an hour), I can
> > no more authenticate through pop3. The error message logged is like:
> >
> > Oct 5 09:59:58 lyxcom3 vpopmail[4000]: vchkpw: No user found
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:208.28.41.163
> >
> > What puzzles me is that I can still signup with qmailadmin.
> Any explanation?
> >
> > Here is my /var/service/pop3d/run:
> >
> > tcpserver -u 0 -g 504 -c 20 -v -R -X \
> > -llyxcom3.lyxcom.com 0 pop-3 \
> > qmail-popup lyxcom3.lyxcom.com \
> > /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw qmail-pop3d Maildir
> >
> > Eudes
>
> Check if any files were modified. Some rpm's for qmail put
> in crontab entries that rebuild /var/qmail/users/assign
>
> Perhaps some other files got modified, or thier permissions
> or ownerships got changed.
>
> Ken Jones
>
