In the vpopmail source code directory. Check your config.h file
for the line:
#define TCPRULES_PROG "/usr/local/bin/tcprules"
What ever that is set to, make sure it points to a good
tcprules program.
It might be crashing when it attempts to run tcprules
Ken Jones
Val Luck wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> My pop server is returning a really weird error when there is a bad
> password entered.
>
> If I try to pop my email with the correct login/password, everything
> works.
>
> If I try to pop email from a non-existant account, it correctly says "no
> such account"
>
> BUT, if I try to pop email down from a existant account with an incorrect
> password, it dies with the weird error:
>
> Connected to 127.0.0.1.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> +OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> user billgates
> +OK
> pass toomuchmoney
> -ERR aack, child crashed
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> I do have a test account of billgates, and when I use the correct
> password, I can pop my email just fine. But, what is this "child
> crashed" ..? It is dying logging the error, or ...? AND, do I need to be
> concerned? If it is a bad password, then, what do I care if it
> crashes? Unless it is eating memory somehow ...
>
> It had this error when I had pop starting out of inetd, and now I run a
> service like this below and it still has that child crashed error ...
>
> env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \
> tcpserver -H -R -l$HOSTNAME -c30 0 pop-3
> /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \
> $HOSTNAME \
> /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir &
> echo -n "pop "
>
> Anyway, thanks for taking a minute to look at it!
>
> --Val
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
