On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Rajesh Fowkar wrote:
> Sreeji K Das saw fit to inform me that:
> >
> >> When I try to login :
> >>
> >> telnet suselinux 110
> >> USER rajesh
> >> PASS xxxx
> >>
> >> It gives me error -ERR Bad Login. Why is this ?
> >>
> >
> >You're trying to connect to your POP3 server, Is that u want ?
>
> Yes.
>
> >If yes,
> >your pop3 server is obviously running (that's why u get this message!)
> >
> >less /var/log/messages
> >
> >& see whether any messages are reported by in.pop3d (or whatever is your
> >POP Server.)
>
> /var/log/messages has got only one line of ipop3d
>
> ipop3d[815]: connect from 127.0.0.2
>
> no other message from ipop3d.
Looks like pop3d is getting killed half-way. May be a segfault ?
Edit /etc/inetd.conf & search for pop3. Change the entry to add the option
-h to pop3d.
Eg. If your entry is like this:
pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.pop3d
Change it to:
pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.pop3d -d
If your pop3 daemon is different, read the man page & find out the option
for debugging & put that option instead of -d. See that you give the
maximum debug level.
Now let inetd re-read your config as:
killall -HUP inetd
Now try to connect. After this, check out /var/log/pop3.log & check out
anything interesting is logged.
[ BTW, did you try with diff. user IDs ? ]
Sreeji
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