On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 21:36, Mark Weaver wrote: > On Sunday 12 January 2003 09:25 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled incoherently: > > > Hi Ric, > > > > > > The very first thing I'd do is turn PS completely off. Better yet...just > > > take the little bugger outa there cause in the long run that app is more > > > trouble at times then it's worth. Once that thing isn't present to muck > > > up the works you may have an easier time debugging the situation. > > > > > > I was running into that for a while some time back and got so sick of PS > > > doing that very thing to me I just took it out. I've not been having any > > > troubles like it since. And I'm still able to keep track of connections > > > to the box just as well. It just gets done a little differently now. > > > -- > > > Mark > > > > Hi Mark; > > Thank you for the reply. > > > > Ok, I just shut off portsentry (service portsentry stop). Bastille-firewall > > is still running. (I'm open to suggestions on better firewalls... Been > > running Bastille for a while now. Never had any problems in the past. But > > this one is hair puller.. > > > > Ok, so after shutting down portsentry, I still can't get my e-Mail. I > > get a "Failure to connect to server" error at the client end. Nothing in > > the logs on the server. imap is listed in the Bastille config file. > > > > But the port seems blocked. If it's not bastille, what is it? > > > > Ric > > Ok...just to make sure, do a restart on both the Postfix service and the > xinetd service to ensure they're running. This is usually the #1 cause of > that particular error message when trying to connect to the imap service. It > goes without saying that you've already got port 143 open for imap > connections since you were connecting in that manner before. > > I too use Bastille, and haven't had any troubles with it. If you're still > unable to connect just give a holler cause there's something tickling at the > back of my neck for this, but I just can't put my finger on it. I'm sure > though as we go through this it'll come to me. > -- > Mark
Ok, I got it. The server even survived a reboot. I just had to piece the run levels back together. All seems well now. Thank you for the jump start. I'd been staring at it so long, I'd lost my perspective. ;) Ric
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