Well have you tried to start tcpserver anyway?
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Johnson, Garrett wrote:
> Please forgive my ignorance. I'm trying to learn.
>
> I have set up a secondary Qmail server on RedHat 7.0 and it
> seems to have come up without a problem, but I'm having a
> hair-pulling time trying to test if it works properly. It has
> passed some basic tests. For instance I can use qmail-inject
> to email other servers. But the number of processes being run
> is awfully small.
> This is what I get from ps -ef | grep qmail:
>
> root 503 502 0 Mar16 ? 00:00:00 supervise qmail-send
> root 505 502 1 Mar16 ? 00:54:39 supervise qmail-smtpd
> qmaill 507 504 0 Mar16 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t
> qmails 508 503 0 Mar16 ? 00:00:00 qmail-send
> qmaill 510 506 0 Mar16 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t
> root 520 508 0 Mar16 ? 00:00:00 qmail-lspawn ./Mailbox
> qmailr 521 508 0 Mar16 ? 00:00:00 qmail-rspawn
> qmailq 522 508 0 Mar16 ? 00:00:00 qmail-clean
> root 3883 505 0 12:20 ? 00:00:00 supervise qmail-smtpd
>
> Should there be more processes running? Why isn't tcpserver
> running (keeping in mind that it isn't passing any email right now)?
> Something more disturbing is that when I run mconnect without
> arguments I get:
>
> tcpclient: unable to connect to 127.0.0.1 port 25: connection refused
>
> When I run a portsniff from another computer port 25 doesn't
> show up? Is this some sort of security or is something wrong?
> Maybe I'm worrying about nothing, but this seems weird.
> Please be patient with the Qmail newbie. I'd be glad to supply
> more information if required.
>
> -Garrett
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
