Re: [x]inetd.conf??

[Marty Landman <MLandman face2interface com>]

At 12:50 AM 2/8/2004, Bob McClure, Jr. wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 07:23:34PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
>
> > fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mail.ulster.net
>
> Not sure what the cause of that is.

Bob, I found a bunch of newsgroup postings on this very error and 
apparently it's due to sendmail not running.

> Check to see if sendmail is running:
>
>   service sendmail status
>
> If not running, try
>
>   service sendmail start

# service sendmail status
sendmail is stopped
# service sendmail start
Starting sendmail: makemap: error opening type hash map access.db: 
Permission denied
make: *** [access.db] Error 73
554 5.0.0 No local mailer defined
554 5.0.0 QueueDirectory (Q) option must be set
                                                           [FAILED]


> As for xinetd, it is installed and surely running, and its various 
> services are controlled by config files in /etc/xinetd.d/.

# more /etc/xinetd.d/

*** /etc/xinetd.d/: directory ***

[root penguin root]# ls -l /etc/xinetd.d/
total 4
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          317 Jan 25  2003 rsync
[root penguin root]# more /etc/xinetd.d/rsync
# default: off
# description: The rsync server is a good addition to an ftp server, as it \
#       allows crc checksumming etc.
service rsync
{
        disable = yes
        socket_type     = stream
        wait            = no
        user            = root
        server          = /usr/bin/rsync
        server_args     = --daemon
        log_on_failure  += USERID
}
[root penguin root]#


> It may be that your firewall is on max.  Go to The Fine Manual
>
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/
>
> and read particularly Chapters 13 and 23.

I set security level to none when installing since this is on my intranet

[root penguin root]# cat /etc/sysconfig/iptables; cat 
/etc/sysconfig/redhat-config-securitylevel
cat: /etc/sysconfig/iptables: No such file or directory
cat: /etc/sysconfig/redhat-config-securitylevel: No such file or directory
[root penguin root]#



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