Jeremy,
Thanks for that!
It works fine now...
Regards, Peter
>
> > We have always done so with other pop servers but I can't find any
> > mention of this and when I modified my inetd.conf it doesn't run popper
> > at all (when we try a test connection).
> >
> > Existing inetd.conf line (not using tcp wrappers):
> > pop3 stream tcp nowait.100 root /usr/local/bin/popper qpopper -sR -c
>
> > Line with tcpd (doesn't work):
> > pop3 stream tcp nowait.100 root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/local/bin/popper qpopper -s
> > -c
>
> The last two entries of the inetd.conf lines are the server program and
> the server program argument(s). The server program arguments start with
> argv[0] which is the name of the program. In your case, "tcpd" is the
> server program. Then you have the arguments of tcpd as
> "/usr/local/bin/popper qpopper -s -c". As you can see "qpopper" is not an
> argument for /usr/local/bin/popper; get rid of the "qpopper" argument, so
> it says
> "/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/local/bin/popper -s -c".
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Jeremy C. Reed
> (I am starting a BSD and Linux users group in Snohomish county; if
> interested email me off-list.)
>
>
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