Well that must be the problem, I have no way of checking if the old box and this one because the old /etc was wiped after the incident. Is there any way to recover this?
----- Original Message ----- From: "mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "shaklee39" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 4:06 PM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] problem with authentication > Hi > Did you check the user ids are the same betwenn you wiped box and the > freebsd box . > It is also not clear what type of authentication you were using . > > Thanks > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "shaklee39" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 7:03 PM > Subject: [vchkpw] problem with authentication > > > > Hi, we recently had a problem on our server where someone accidently did a > > "rm -rf /" for a few seconds (yes it is true) and /etc along with many > other > > things were wiped out. Thankfully the qmail and vpopmail directories were > > not changed. Our host installed a new drive with freebsd on it and I > copied > > the qmail and vpopmail folders over to the new drive and tried to start it > > up. I did the regular checks such as disabling sendmail and moving the > > startup scripts. vdominfo reports all the domains have the correct number > of > > users. When I start qmail there are no errors but authentication no longer > > works. The install is per LWQ directions. In the pop logs all I see is > stuff > > like this: > > > > @400000003e89b5440e764f04 tcpserver: end 445 status 256 > > @400000003e89b5440e776c2c tcpserver: status: 0/20 > > @400000003e89b583057164fc tcpserver: status: 1/20 > > @400000003e89b5830578b02c tcpserver: pid 481 from 66.127.229.52 > > @400000003e89b583057c59ac tcpserver: ok 481 0:66.213.105.32:110 > > :66.127.229.52:: > > 3257 > > > > but nothing more after a failed attempt at a pop login. I have no idea > where > > to go from here as to how to debug this login problem any help is > > appreciated. > > > > > >
