At 2:59 PM -0400 4/18/01, Lisa Casey wrote:
> I have two questions that I feel are really simple and I ought to be able to
> find the answer on my own, but after reading the INSTALL, the Administrators
> Manual on the web site and the FAQ, I still don't really have a clue.
The GUIDE.pdf file including in the distribution is currently more
up-to-date than the one on the web site. This should be corrected
soon.
>
> I'm getting quite a few error messages like this since I upgraded:
>
> Apr 17 22:05:37 i2000 -sR[11393]: lvann at 205.160.50.172
> (205.160.50.172): -ERR
> POP timeout from i2000.jellico.net
>
>
> It's my understanding that I should increase qpopper's timeout value from
> the default 2 minutes to something higher. Do I do this by adding a -T600 to
> the pop3 line in my inetd.conf? (With 600 being 10 minutes, or 300 for 5
> minutes). OR do I do this by changing the nowait in inetd.conf to
> nowait.300 (for 5 min) or nowait.600 (for 10 minutes). I am confused here...
You use either the 'T' command line flag, or the 'timeout' option
in a configuration file. See the Administrator's Guide for full
details.
The inetd.conf option is in case you get errors from inetd where it
thinks Qpopper is looping.
>
> I used the configuration option --enable-statistics, but didn't specify a
> log file. I assumed qpopper would use either /var/log/messages or
> /var/log/maillog for this but I cannot find these statistics messages in
> either of these logs. Should I specify a log file? If so, where and how?
You can specify an alternate log file using the 't' command-line
flag or the 'tracefile' configuration file option. But you don't
have to do that. You probably just need to update your syslog.conf
file and specify where you want Qpopper's log messages to go. You
specify by the log facility that Qpopper uses, which defaults to
either 'mail' or 'local1', depending on your OS. You can also
specify a facility using the '--enable-log-facility' configure
flag, the 'y' command-line flag, or the 'log-facility'
configuration file option. See the Administrator's Guide for
details.
