"Alex Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> BTW, you really should use tcpserver from [ucspi-tcp]. Inetd doesn't
>> work very well and is unsupported with qmail.
>
>Certainly on my system, smtp did NOT function when I placed the same command
>in my inetd as per the tarball instructions but when I installed the Memphis
>RPM, which uses the ucsi-tcpserver instead, smtp worked.
In all likelihood, you botched the inetd.conf entry and/or didn't HUP
inetd after updating it. The DJB tarball instructions give an example
inetd.conf entry that doesn't work with every inetd in existence. Dan
wrongly assumed that the installer could/would adjust the entry
according to their inetd's needs.
>Is there a tarball for qmail that directs you to use and provide
>installation steps for ucsi-tcpserver.
"Life with qmail" goes through a detailed tarball installation that
uses daemontools and ucspi-tcp. See:
http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#installation
It also leaves you with a handy administrative interface that supports
such commands as:
"qmail start": start qmail
"qmail stop": stop qmail
"qmail stat": show the status of the qmail system
"qmail cdb": rebuild the tcpcontrol cdb file for smtp
"qmail restart": shut qmail down and restart it
"qmail doqueue": tell qmail-send to try to deliver all queued mail
"qmail reload": reread locals and virtualdomains
"qmail queue": show status of the queue
"qmail pause": temporarily pause qmail
"qmail cont": continues paused qmail
>Also, if qmail doesn't support the inetd why does the install
>instructions say to install it that way?
Inetd became unsupported after the release of 1.03.
-Dave
