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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