popa3d-users - Re: simple question?

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Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 20:22:11 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: popa3d-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: simple question?

On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 04:08:29PM -0800, phaser-X wrote:

Hi,

> service pop3
> {
> 	socket_type	= stream
> 	protocol	= tcp
> 	wait		= no
> 	user		= popa3d
> 	server		= /usr/local/sbin/popa3d
> 	port		= 110
> 	disable		= no
> }

As others have explained, this is wrong.  I'll add that you must not
explicitly specify a port number for xinetd services, unless you also
use the UNLISTED flag.  For services listed in /etc/services, the name
is sufficient.  Here's the configuration which works:

service pop3
{
	socket_type     = stream
	protocol        = tcp
	user            = root
	wait            = no
	server          = /usr/sbin/popa3d
}

It also helps to look at your log files after you reload xinetd, I'm
quite sure that xinetd has indicated what your problem is in there.

-- 
/sd