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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sorry about that! I went back and looked and
as a troubleshooting step I HAD put it in rc.local. Still no go.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is there a way to convert this to a line that can
be used in inetd.conf?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=TJDavis@sagu.edu href="mailto:TJDavis@sagu.edu">TJ Davis</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=discuss@ntlug.org
href="mailto:'discuss@ntlug.org'">'discuss@ntlug.org'</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, March 22, 2002 2:05
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: [NTLUG:Discuss] qmail,
closing an open relay, and startup issues.</DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>Have you tried the rc.local file? In redhat the path is
"/etc/rc.d/rc.local" I am not sure if it is the same in slcakware or not
but probably so. The only bad thing about it is that you cannot tell it
which runlevel to start in...it just gets started last. Perhaps rc.M
does the same as rc.local though because I am not familiar with rc.M.
Anyways, give rc.local a try.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>T.J. Davis</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>Southwestern A/G
University</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>Information Technology</FONT> <BR><FONT
size=2>tjdavis@sagu.edu</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>(972) 937-4010 ext.
1255</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>1 Timothy 4:12</FONT> </P><BR>
<P><FONT size=2>-----Original Message-----</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>From:
Richard Geoffrion [<A
href="mailto:ntlug@rain.lewisville.tx.us">mailto:ntlug@rain.lewisville.tx.us</A>]</FONT>
<BR><FONT size=2>Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 1:38 PM</FONT> <BR><FONT
size=2>To: discuss@ntlug.org</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss]
qmail, closing an open relay, and startup</FONT> <BR><FONT
size=2>issues.</FONT> </P><BR>
<P><FONT size=2>{Distro: Slackware 8}</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>Greetings once again all.</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>I've been amiss in my duties of closing an open qmail
relay. I have finally</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>gone through the steps and
have it closed down. The unfortunate thing is</FONT> <BR><FONT
size=2>that I can't get the SMTP server up and running
automatically. I must</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>always login to the
server and execute the tcpserver command manually.</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>I disabled the smtp service from the /etc/inetd.conf
file</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>#smtp stream tcp nowait qmaild
/var/qmail/bin/tcp-env tcp-env</FONT> <BR><FONT
size=2>/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>and added the line</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>tcpserver -x/etc/mail/tcp.smtp.cdb -u1002 -g102 0 smtp</FONT>
<BR><FONT size=2>/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd &</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>in my /etc/rc.d/rc.M script. Well, the SMTP server
doesn't want to start</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>from there and when started
manually the service has just stopped or shut</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>down a
few times. There is mention of downloading another djb tool to
use</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>for starting up services, but quite frankly I'd
rather not use that. I'd</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>rather just use good ol
fashion inetd to do my dirty work. (At least I</FONT> <BR><FONT
size=2>THINK that's what I want..)</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>So...Can someone point me in the right direction on getting
the smtp</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>service? (or convert me to the use of yet
another {seemingly} stinkin djb</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>tool. @^@@#$
@^&&#$ **!* crackers! none of this would be so necessary
if</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>not for them! UG!</FONT> </P><BR>
<P><FONT size=2>-Richard</FONT> </P><BR>
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