The jist of the response was, no, I didn't use a plain text file for the
.cbd file in tcpserver.
Thanks.
Paul D. Farber II
Farber Technology
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On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, James Smallacombe wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Paul Farber wrote:
>
> > Yeah, I know. But the binary .cdb file is pretty unreadable, don't you
> > think?
>
> unreadable by you, but it's what tcpserver reads. AFAIK, tcpserver can't
> read unhashed plaintext. The command to do this changed in recent
> tcpservers; You now use tcprules instead of tcpmakectl...it does pretty
> much the same thing. You can also use tcprulescheck to check it against an
> ip.
>
> Also, if the following isn't all on one line (ie, if you edit it with pico
> without using -w), make sure you put a \ on the end of the first line.
>
> 28500 ? S 0:01 tcpserver -v -H -R -c100 -x
> /etc/tcprules.d/qmail-smtpd.cdb -u81 -g80 0 smtp qmail-smtpd
>
>
