From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 28 20:25:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA20248 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 20:25:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from trickster.net (trickster.net [199.1.13.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA20243 for ; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 20:25:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from travis@trickster.net) Received: from [209.154.111.72] (chi-qbu-nvm-vty72.as.wcom.net [209.154.111.72]) by trickster.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA18006 for ; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 23:24:55 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199811290424.XAA18006@trickster.net> Subject: popauth woes Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 22:35:02 -0500 x-sender: travis@wildebeest.trickster.net x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0v3, January 22, 1998 From: Travis Ruthenburg To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm a newbie to FreeBSD and Unix in general. I hope my question is easily answered by someone out there. I am using popauth (popb4smtp ?) on my FreeBSD machine. If you're not familiar with popauth, it's a set of three scripts that prevent mail relaying. The watcher script watches for users checking their POP accounts. After a user checks their pop account, their ip is added to a directory. The allow script then allows any ip in the directory to use the smtp server. Finally, after a set number of minutes, the expire script removes the ip address from the directory. More information can be found at . To quote the site: "Run this watcher in the background, killing and restarting it from cron whenever the syslog (and its own log) files are rotated. (Use the watcher.pid file)" This explains why popauth would systematically crap out on me. So, my question is, how exactly do I use cron to kill and restart the watcher? Any help is greatly appreciated. Travis Ruthenburg bjork bjork bjork travis@trickster.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message