In my experience, that error is caused when the value you enter for the port
isn't listed in /etc/services
jason
> Hello. I just setup a server for my father and I installed qmail because
> I use it here and it works great. His situation is a little different
> from my own, however. POP3 works great starting from inetd, but qmail
> gives errors. The error I get is:
>
> tcpserver: fatal: unable to figure out port number for geceventures.com
>
> I'm starting qmail-smtpd with:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> QMAILUID=`id -u qmaild`
> NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild`
> exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 2000000 \
> /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcprules.d/smtpd.cdb \
> -u $QMAILUID -g $NOFILESGID geceventures.com 25 \
> /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1
>
> I installed it via tarball on Mandrake 7. Again, we're behind a firewall,
> so I think that has something to do with it (otherwise it's nearly
> identical to my own working setup).
>
> The IP address that the server is on is 10.1.1.2, and the IP address for
> the firewall is 10.1.1.1 locally and something else for the outside
> internet (I forget off-hand). I use ipmasqadm to forward ports 25 and 110
> to 10.1.1.2.
>
> Orginially the "25" was "smtp", but I hard-coded everything hoping it
> might work that way, but no dice.
>
> Any idea why this isn't working and possibly some tips on how to get it to
> work? I'm not sure how qmail operates in this sort of situation knowing
> it's stringent environment checking on DNS, MX records, and so
> forth. We'd really like to get this up and running, but my father is very
> new to Linux so I'm administering it for him until he learns enough to do
> it himself. Any help would be appreciated.
>
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