At 3:34 PM +0100 7/3/01, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new here having got rather stuck last night upgrading a cobalt raq2
> running a rather old version of qpopper as it's pop3 daemon. I installed
> a number of patches from the cobalt website only to discover that once
> that was done users could no longer log in to collect their e-mail.
> Searching
> through the (unfortunately rather minimal) log files I found a number of
> errors, the first of which was:
>
> Jul 3 00:27:29 mail in.qpopper[19367]: Unable to obtain socket and address
> of client, err = 134
This generally means you're running Qpopper in an incorrect way, such
as trying to run an inetd version by itself. If this is the case,
either run it through inetd, or compile it for standalone mode. See
the Administrator's Guide for details.
>
> I haven't seen this error repeated but now see regular reports such as:
>
> Jul 11 11:51:33 mail /usr/sbin/in.qpopper[1065]: Unable to obtain socket
> and address of client: Socket operation on non-socket (95)
>
> (I realise that the date is wrong and intend to fix this shortly).
>
> When I try and telnet to the server on port 110 I am able to connect and
> get the expected welcome message:
>
> "Escape character is '^]'.
> +OK QPOP (version ?) at localhost starting.
> user USERNAME
> +OK Password required for USERNAME.
> pass PASSWORD
> Connection closed by foreign host."
This appears to be an older version of Qpopper compiled in SHY mode.
Try upgrading to 4.0.3 (with or without SHY).
>
> I know that the username and password I have entered are correct as I've
> been using them to ssh to the box.
>
> Does anyone have any idea where the problem may lie or suggestions of
> things to check?
>
> cheers. James.
>
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