This is a bit of topic but...
Your hostname should just be the ns1 (pop or whatever else you want) - not
the whole full domain name.
-T.J.
On 9/18/01 7:29 AM, "Primetime" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, first of all I would like to say this is the first message I post to this
> mailing list.
>
> Now I would like to post a problem I am having. I am using Linux Debian sid
> on an Athlon computer. It's running kernel 2.4.9 and Qmail 1.3, as well as
> Bind 9.1.3. The hostname is ns1.linuxsilo.net (i.e. "/etc/hostname" contains
> that) and I installed vpopmail using "apt-get install vpopmail-bin". It set
> the username and group as well as the inet.d start script.
>
> It seems that something must be wrong, maybe in my host configuration, maybe
> in my vpopmail configuration. I state this because, after running a ps -ax
> command, I get something like this in my screen:
>
> /usr/bin/tcpserver -H -R 0 pop-3 /usr/sbin/qmail-popup
> ns1.linuxsilo.net.linuxsilo.net /usr/sbin/vchkpw /usr/sbin/q [..]
>
> So, it is listening at ns1.linuxsilo.net.linuxsilo.net, while it should be
> listening to ns1.linuxsilo.net. I have checked the script under init.d and
> the line that launches the program states like this:
>
> sh -c "start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --user root \
> --exec /usr/bin/tcpserver -- \
> -H -R 0 ${SERVERTYPE} /usr/sbin/qmail-popup
> `hostname`.`dnsdomainname` \
> $DAEMON /usr/sbin/qmail-pop3d Maildir &"
>
> So, it tries to concatenate hostname and dnsdomainname, which obviously
> returns that bad string "ns1.linuxsilo.net.linuxsilo.net".
>
> I would like to run my vpopmail server on pop3.linuxsilo.net, which is the
> same machine as ns1.linuxsilo.net. So, what should I change? Something in my
> machine? Maybe I should directly modify that line of the script and put a
> pop3.linuxsilo.net there?
>
> Thanks in advance.
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T.J. Drennan
Software Engineer Wireless Systems
Spectrum Signal Processing
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