On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 06:01:56PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Using qpopper 3.1.
That is incredibly ancient. I think there might be major remote
security holes in that release, though it's been so long I don't
remember.
> I'm getting all sorts of errors in my logs referring to qpop.
>
> [0] 29 (Illegal seek); 0 (Success)
> -ERR POP EOF or I/O Error: 29 (Illegal seek); 0 (Success)
>
> -ERR POP EOF or I/O Error: 2 (No such file or directory); 0 (Su
> ccess)
>
>
> These seem to be related to connection errors that the customers are seeing.
> Most recently, the server has been becoming unresponsive when the Illegal seek
> errors occur.
This sounds like the pop server could be under remote attack; it
would be a good idea to upgrade ASAP, if you haven't already been
rooted.
Upgrade to 4.0.5 and this will solve current known security issues
and many performance problems; if you still have problems then, bring
it back to the list and folks can be more helpful.
-- Clifton
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