Hello Ken,
Thanks for your earlier message, and sorry for not responding any quicker.
Anyway, I have checked and I am running the tcpserver/qmail-pop3d as root ;
here are the tcpserver processes running: (reformatted for readability)
[root@ranma log]# ps -ef --cols 145 | grep tcp
root 1372 1 0 00:16 pts/1 00:00:00
tcpserver -H -R -lranma -c30 0
pop-3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup ranma
/home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /
qmaild 1373 1 0 00:16 pts/1 00:00:00 tcpserver -H -R -lranma
-x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c30 -u505 -g509 0 smtp /var/qmail
and here is the startup rc line that deals with pop:
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 "
And that nasty error - I still get the message in the /var/log/syslog :
Mar 8 00:31:15 ranma vpopmail[1450]: vchkpw: setgid() failed
Does anything look obvious?
Val
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ken Jones
> Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 4:55 AM
> To: Val Luck
> Subject: Re: help -- vchkpw: setgid() failed !?!
>
>
>
> make sure you are running your tcpserver/qmail-pop3d as root
>
> ken Jones
>
>
> Hello fellow qmail/vpopmail friends:
>
> I am trying to get an install of qmail up and running and I am stumbling
> at the last hurdle.
>
> I am installing qmail + vpopmail +qmail-scanner, and everything seems to
> be installed ok, but I
> noticed that qmail-scanner wants to use /usr/bin/suidperl. Now I've
> downloaded, compiled and
> installed perl, and I can't get perl to make me a suidperl; it seems to
> think that I can't support
> it ...?
>
> Anyhow, I can run tests injecting mails into the system, and the
> messages show up under
> ~vpopmail/users/val/ where they should be. However, when I try and pop
> them down, I get back from
> the pop server
>
> [root@ranma ]# telnet 0 110
> Trying 0.0.0.0...
> Connected to 0.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> +OK <13956.982890598@ranma>
> user val
> +OK
> pass password
> -ERR authorization failed
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> and in the syslog I get
>
>
> Feb 22 16:14:15 ranma vpopmail[3440]: vchkpw:No user found
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:10.10.69.9
>
> Feb 22 16:16:43 ranma vpopmail[3606]: vchkpw: setgid() failed
>
>
> So, I am guessing that something is unhappy along with way with
> /usr/bin/suidperl missing.
>
> It is interesting to note that the error seems to be coming from vckpw,
> and not from qmail-scanner
> like I'd except.
>
> I did some DEJA and GOOGLE (the same now) searches on vckpw and that
> error, and I browsed my
> emails from this group the past month or so, and didn't find anything
> that seemed to help.
>
> Any ideas? Hints?
>
> Thanks so much in advance!!
>
> Val
