It is not initd.conf but inetd.conf
The inetd daemon sits and listens to the ports specified in inetd.conf, and
when a request comes in it transfers it to the program specified in the conf
file. It also does other things but that is about it.
The downside is that inetd does not tend to handle high loads very well so
qmail tends to be run from tcpserver, which does effectively the same thing
but only listens on one port, as well as a few extras such as ensuring the
request is coming from an appropriate IP address.
This is all covered in the faqs and man pages, although I acknowledge they
can be cryptic at times.
Edmund
James wrote:
> I have been doing a search to find out how to open my port 25 for
> listening, and I've come across a suggestion that I should edit my
> initd.conf file to insure that port 25 is listening. I am using Mandrake
> 7.02 and I can't find initd.conf anywhere. It's not in /etc/ or
> /etc/rc.d/init.d or anywhere.
>
> Is this the file I need to edit to allow qmail to listen to port 25?
>
> Thanks.
>
> James
