Peter Cavender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The LWQ description of setting up pop3 for qmail only
>says to put the tcpserver command in the qmail startup file.
>
>Shouldn't this "service" be supervised by svscan?
Ideally, yes.
>Why do the other qmail processes get this, but pop3 does not?
Because the POP3 section of LWQ doesn't assume that everyone reading
it installed qmail using the LWQ directions--and I've been too lazy to
add a blurb with LWQ-specific POP3 installation instructions.
>Also, I am moving towards eliminating inetd, and have set up in.telnetd to
>be run by tcpserver in a line in rc.local (RH Linux 6.2 here). In the
>inetd.conf file, it runs in.telnetd via /usr/sbin/tcpd. In the man page
>is says that tcps does some logging and other stuff, but I see no signs of
>it. When I try to use tcpserver->tcpd->in.telnetd, it doesn't
>work. Remove tcpd and all is fine. Should I be happy discarding tcpd?
Yep. It doesn't do anything tcpserver can't do.
>Also, since my inetd.conf file is now *empty*, can I disable it
>altogether, or or will I lose essential internal services?
Sure, nuke it.
-Dave
