[vchkpw] Re: domain problem

[jake]

Nothing in the pop3d log since 3/4, when this all started.  If I just run 
the 'run' script it starts supervising pop3d, but it still only runs 1 sec 
at max.  netstat -p -l shows nothing on port 110.  The -x option to 
tcpserver is straight from Dave Sill's script that he sends with The Qmail 
Handbook, and it was working before so I think it is safe.  When I just do 
this part of the run file: 

~# /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup uptimecomputing.com \
 /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw \
 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 2>&1 
I get to a login, I give it a good USER/PASS and then it says: 

-ERR this user has no $HOME/Maildir 

Looks like it doesn't know where to look for Maildirs anymore. I can't 
figure out why yet. 

Clayton Weise writes: 

Well.. for one thing, I've never seen qmail-pop3d used with the -x option,
so I'm not sure how tcpserver handles that.  I can't say for sure whether it
would work or not.  One thing is simply to try and run that script as-is and
see what errors you get (if any).  Also, check your pop3d log files and see
if they report any errors.  And last, but not least, make sure that no other
applications are listening on port 110. 

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 9:46 AM
To: Clayton Weise
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Subject: [vchkpw] Re: domain problem 

That did it! Thanks again for the assistance.  Sqwebmail was broken after 
that so I did the same thing to it and now it works great.  I still see one 
problem, when I do 'qmailctl stat' it show pop3d up for 0 or 1 second.  I 
can't see any log entries that would point to why.  The qmail handbook 
suggests there could be problems with a run script, but I haven't touched 
any and it was working.  I checked to make sure nothing else is running on 
port 110.  Could something I did with all this vpopmail stuff have done 
something?  

My /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-pop3d/run file:  

#!/bin/sh  

# Dave Sill, 2001-11-06
# For use with The qmail Handbook, ISBN 1893115402  

MAXPOP3D=`head -1 /var/qmail/control/concurrencypop3`
if [ -z "$MAXPOP3D" ]; then
   echo MAXPOP3D is unset in
   echo $0
   exit 1
fi
exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 2000000 \
   /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -H -l 0 -x /etc/tcp.pop3.cdb -c 
"$MAXPOP3D" \
       0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup uptimecomputing.com 
/home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw \
	    /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 2>&1  

Clayton Weise writes:  

Typically when people recompile vpopmail they do it by running a make
clean
or make distclean in the source directory and reconfiguring it.  I've
found
this to be just a tad unreliable and I usually erase the source dir, and
untar a "fresh" batch of source to make my new build.  This usually
resolves
oddities like you described below.  Also, after a make install-strip
vpopmail will attempt to chown everything with the vpopmail:vchkpw user
and
group.  Sometimes to verify (usually for my own sanity more than anything
else) before I run the make install-strip I'll move the ~vpopmail/bin to
~vpopmail/bin.old that way I know that when it installs it won't fail at
attempting to overwrite a file that's currently in use.  I also, before
the
make install-strip, stop any pop3 or smtp services that might be using
vpopmail for the same reason.  Give that a shot.  

-Clayton