popa3d-users - Re: simple question?

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Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 20:27:46 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: popa3d-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: simple question?

On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 09:18:03AM -0800, phaser-X wrote:
> If i'm user root and execute /usr/local/sbin/popa3d -D, i get the 
> following:
> 
> negative root # /usr/local/sbin/popa3d -D
> +OK
> 
> And then it just waits for input ..

That's because you haven't enabled standalone mode and command-line
options support when you built popa3d.  There're settings in params.h
which control this.

> I use qmail for smtp and use ~/Mailbox format, so i #undef the 
> MAIL_SPOOL_PATH .. If I do that, I get a bunch of compile warnings.  Here 
> they are:

You must have edited params.h wrongly.  I can't guess what exactly you
did wrong without seeing it first.

> On another note, i'm using grsecurity patches and i have "special group 
> socket access" or whatever it's called enabled.  Where members who belong 
> to group X have access to sockets.. I went ahead and added the popa3d user 
> to this special group "just in case", but still, nothing.

That's a wrong thing to do, please revert it.

-- 
/sd