On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 07:41:36AM -0500, Mykroft Holmes IV wrote: > On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 06:48, Gannater J??nos wrote: > > My problem is that, > > I installed the popper and the imap-uw programs. With make install > > from their directory in /usr/ports. > > My first problem is that I can't find the popper program... > > All the installations went fine! > > Athought the impad program does exists, but if I start it I can't see it > > anywhere. Not in sockstat in the ps and telnet ..... > > I tried to restart the system, but nothing else changed. Of course I > > uncommented the pop3 and imap lines in the /etc/inetd.conf file. > > Do you have a guess what could be wrong? > > imapd is a peculiar program. It doesn't actually understand IP or ports, > merely stin and stdout. If you have uncommented it's lines in inetd, try > 'telnet localhost 143' and see if you get a response. The sockstat and > netstat suggestions will not work for imapd, since it is started by > inetd. > > Your inetd daemon is running, right? If not, check the Handbook on how > to enable it (IIRC it's an option you need to set in rc.conf, but should > be enabled in /etc/defaults/rc.conf)
As an additional question, you did restart/reload inetd after changing inetd.conf, right? (killall -HUP inetd) Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN Hostmaster, Huie Kin family website X HELP CURE HTML MAIL Verger, All Saints Church - Sharon Chapel / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message