Re: POP3 Server Install

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At 05:30 AM 4/29/98 -0400, Krishna Das <krishnad iu net> wrote:
>The problem is that qpopper does not seem to be running as a process.  I
>don't know enough to tell an executable file from one that is not.  Anyway
>I thought that the rpm contains the qpopper executable and automatically
>installs it.  There is a "in.qpopper" in /usr/sbin and that inetc.conf
>calls it with tcpd.  But is never appears in the list of processes.
>

You won't see a process for qpopper running when it's called from inetd.conf
The process will only start up when there is a POP3 request for it to deal
with - and then it closes when done.

>If I type "tcpd in.qpopper" the hard drive make a noise like the system is
>search hi and lo for something (but never finds it).
>
>If I try to run in.qpopper by itself I get a Segmentation fault (core
>dumped).

It's expecting a POP3 client to be accessing it. Running qpopper from the
command line doesn't give the info it's looking for, hence it barfs on you.

Try connecting to qpopper with popclient and see what happens.

HTH,

Bruce
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