From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 20 22:25:00 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DF2A16A41C for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 22:25:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Received: from mail.scls.lib.wi.us (mail.scls.lib.wi.us [198.150.40.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B53843D48 for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 22:24:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Received: from [172.26.2.238] ([172.26.2.238]) by mail.scls.lib.wi.us (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j5KMOwd7092417; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:24:58 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Message-ID: <42B741AE.80806@scls.lib.wi.us> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:22:38 -0500 From: Greg Barniskis User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Charles Howse References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: qpopper error X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 22:25:00 -0000 Charles Howse wrote: > Hi, > In my research before posting this question, I saw this same question > in numerous places, but I never saw a resolution! > > I have qpopper 4.0.5 running from inetd on FBSD 4.11. > I start it thus: /usr/local/libexec/qpopper > When I connect from my Mac to check my mail, I see the following in / > var/log/messages: > > Jun 19 19:45:18 moe qpopper[199]: charles at 192.168.254.3 > (192.168.254.3): -ERR > [SYS/TMP] POP authentication DB not abailable (user charles): No such > file or directory (2) > > Anyone have any ideas what's wrong? I could be mistaken, but it looks like maybe it's looking for a separate POP user authentication database separate from /etc/passwd. I know that we do this to support APOP logins. Do you have /usr/local/etc/qpopper/pop.auth.db ? You may need to initialize it and then add your username to it. man qpopauth -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348