During the bombing raid on Mon, 14 May 2001 17:37:11 +0200, Claudio was heard
mumbling in fear:
> Trying to install a pop3 server on my mdk-8.0 at university:
>
> 1.
> Quite a great fantasy to put it into imap-200
That I agree with...broken idea.
>
> 2.
> Quite a good fantasy to put away inetd for a not working xinetd, so that...
I don't agree, reason bellow.
>
> 3.
> xinet won't start and all I get in /var/log/messages is:
> May 14 17:34:29 flypro xinetd[12065]: imaps disabled, removing
> May 14 17:34:29 flypro xinetd[12065]: imap disabled, removing
> May 14 17:34:29 flypro xinetd[12065]: echo-udp disabled, removing
> May 14 17:34:29 flypro xinetd[12065]: echo disabled, removing
> May 14 17:34:29 flypro xinetd[12065]: daytime-udp disabled, removing
> May 14 17:34:29 flypro xinetd[12065]: daytime disabled, removing
> May 14 17:34:29 flypro xinetd[12065]: cvspserver disabled, removing
> May 14 17:34:29 flypro xinetd[12065]: socket creation failed (Address family
> not supported by protocol (errno = 97)). service = pop3
Here's your error...something in your pop3 configuration is borked.
> May 14 17:34:29 flypro xinetd[12065]: {init_services} no services. Exiting...
> May 14 17:34:30 flypro xinetd: xinetd startup succeeded
>
> 4.
> It's fucking me!!! It says "xinetd startup succeede" but now...
>
> 5.
> [root@flypro RPMS]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd stop
> Stopping xinetd: [FAILED]
> [root@flypro RPMS]#
> [root@flypro RPMS]# tail -3 /var/log/messages
> May 14 17:34:29 flypro xinetd[12065]: {init_services} no services. Exiting...
> May 14 17:34:30 flypro xinetd: xinetd startup succeeded
> May 14 17:35:48 flypro xinetd: xinetd shutdown failed
>
> for it did NOT start, I suppose.
xinetd won't start emptyhanded, that is, if there's no services that
require it, it won't start. I think that's a) intended behaviour b) a Good
Thing(tm)
> Anyway, pop server won't work. :o(
> Any hint?
It's your pop3 configuration...and no, I have no clue exactly what,
since I've sworn mailservers away and deleted all knowledge of em from my mind.
Vox
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