On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Well I just installed binc. Went smoothly, apart from the ssl. But I used >the last resort of RTFM and now it works.
I hope you don't mind me asking; what exactly didn't work with SSL at the first attempt? >Though I have some questions. >Since I will only be using imaps, I've removed the imap link from >/service, I presume this is ok? Yes, you are right. >The services were down. I started them with svc -u... >then I could connect. There was a file called down (zero bytes) >in the /service/imaps directory. I've deleted this. svstat reported >up 240 secs, normally down. >Why was the down file there? Is deleting it ok? The reason for the file is to prevent the service from getting started automatically when the server is installed, and after every reboot. If you want the service to be started automatically on a system restart, remove the down file. Many administrators like to investigate reasons for a system crash before the services on a machine is brought up again. Also it's usually best to scan through the configuration of the server after the first install� before letting users connect :-). That's why the down files are there. Note that there are down files in all the service directories, so check your imaps/log directory too. Andy :-) -- Andreas Aardal Hanssen | http://www.andreas.hanssen.name/gpg Author of Binc IMAP | "It is better not to do something http://www.bincimap.org/ | than to do it poorly."
