From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 23 10:19:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA23197 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 10:19:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from genericmail.com (mail1.simplenet.com [207.67.128.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA23192 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 10:19:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from frank2 ([38.11.118.195]) by genericmail.com (Netscape Mail Server v1.1) with ESMTP id AAA24178; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 10:19:10 -0700 From: "Frank A. Herda" To: Cc: Subject: Re: oops... nevermind what I said about qpopper Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 13:21:01 -0500 X-MSMail-Priority: High X-Priority: 1 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <19970223181908.AAA24178@frank2> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I tried your prior suggestions and although it looked like everything worked it still would not. So I tried going back to the ports collection on freebsd's ftp site. Apparently there is a port for qpop2.2. So I blew everything off in my install direcetory and ran the port which is supposted to add appropriate patches to support freebsd. It still did not put popper executable in the libexec directory. I had to copy this from the "work" directory that created by the install scripts mannually. Everthing seemed to run fine, popauth created, popper created but when I tried to get the popper deamon running thru inetd.conf I keep getting permission denied (I''m doing this from root) so I'm really perplexed! Does anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong? ---------- > From: Troy Settle > To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: oops... nevermind what I said about qpopper > Date: Thursday, February 20, 1997 2:44 AM > > A few days ago, I responded to a post asking how to get qpopper to > run on FreeBSD. One of the things I mentioned, was to change the > directories in popper.h. DO NOT DO THIS, YOU MAY LOOSE MAIL. > > Earlier tonight, I lost an untold amount of mail when my server > rebooted. Of course, in /etc/rc. /tmp is cleaned up. Nothing > survives... not even temporary mail files. Damn blanktime > thingie... grrr.... > > Oh well... I didn't loose anything important... just the 2-300 > messages I get each day from various lists. :) > > ttyl, > > Troy > > > (Oh, it now seems that the easiest way to get qpopper to work, is to > 'chmod 1777 /var/mail' Are there any religious reasons why I don't > want to do this?) > > > -- > Troy Settle > Network Administrator, iPlus Internet Services > http://www.i-Plus.net > > ( Stuff I said does not reflect the company I work ) > ( for unless I'm speaking on behalf of said company )