I saw this error on my RAQ4. It comes from inetd panicing that too many POP3
sockets per minute
are occurring. The default is 40 POP3 connections per minute. This could be
due to POP3 password
failures or possibly a hacker attack. Or a bug in the qpopper program itself.
Or just more than the allowed number of connections.
It usually results in mail checking disabled for 5 minutes. If you want to
raise this number just edit inetd.conf and change nowait to nowait.80 (to
double it). You may want to restart init or reboot. I am
not sure when it rereads the config file. I think running "init q" will do
the trick.
example line in /etc/inetd.conf
pop-3 stream tcp nowait.80 root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.qpopper -R
Sets the maximum connections per minute to 80.
I got this little tidbit of information from Cobalt tech support 2 weeks ago.
Herb
ewebplace wrote:
> I got a present from my RAQ3 this morning:
>
> Jan 17 11:25:17 ns1 inetd[457]: pop-3/tcp server failing (looping), service
> terminated
>
> It left it in /var/log/messages.
>
> Any idea what would cause my RAQ to be so generous?
>
> Sorry for the attempt at comedy...
> just seemed like such a dry...what's causing this message other wise ;)
>
> Brian
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