On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 16:34, Matt Darcy wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 30 December 2002 07:15 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [vchkpw] qmail/vpopmail cannot auth pop3 clients. No > logging. > > > Matt Darcy wrote: > > > #!/bin/sh > > exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 5000000 \ > > /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -H -R 0 pop-3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup > \ > > alesi.projecthugo.co.uk /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw > > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 2>&1 > > > > I can't see anything wrong with the startup script....... > > Well Matt from looking at this and the fact that I also run Redhat 7.3 I see > one thing wrong. Your default /etc/services file has your pop-3 as pop3. > There > are several ways to fix this, 1) either modify the /etc/services [bad idea], > 2) Modify your run script to say pop3 [good choice], or 3) modify your run > script to say 110 instead of pop-3 [best choice, unless you use a different > port number]. Hope that helps some. > > Joe > > > > This the question I have just asked.....I have modified the script again as > suggested to reference pop3 instead of pop-3. > > I still cannot get the qmail-pop3d daemon to stay up longer than 1 second. > > I need to know if 1 second is whats expected as I would not expect the pop3 > daemon to stay up all the time just spawn when called. I could be wrong > though. > > Thanks, > > Matt. > > The pop daemon should be up all the time.
You may want to check your qmailctl script for any possible errors in calling the pop3 daemon. Also, a few times I've had problems with different text editors leaving some trash characters in the script when I'v entered tabs of spaces. That especially was a problem when I used gedit (I run redhat too) hope that helps some good luck regis
