From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 2 19:42: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dpdtech.com (110-174.bestdsl.net [216.162.110.174]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40A7E37B401 for ; Mon, 2 Jul 2001 19:42:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dpd@dpdtech.com) Received: from [192.168.22.203] (defiant.dpdtech.com [192.168.22.203]) by dpdtech.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f632fu660232 for ; Mon, 2 Jul 2001 21:41:58 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dpd@dpdtech.com) User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022 Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 21:41:57 -0500 Subject: Re: qmail startup From: "David P. Discher" To: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200107030004.TAA06936@fep.hirshfields.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The restart may have been needed in this cause because you where running it out of inetd. Have to SIGHUP that inetd before it reads the inetd.conf file again. # kill -HUP `cat /var/run/inetd.pid` In Mr. Schmitt's case, I'm not sure if this is the case, but this is probably what Mr. Johnson saw. I still use the pain-in-the-rear-end Sendmail, Got it working with SMTP Auth and SSL (well, wrapping it with stunnel is better because Outlook doesn't like the StartTLS ). on 7/2/01 7:04 PM, Roger P. Johnson at rpj@fep.hirshfields.com wrote: > I had the same problem on Solaris. I was following the INSTALL directions > verbatim, killed sendmail, started qmail, telnet localhost 25 and got > "connection refused". Rebooted the machine and qmail worked. I don't why > I had to reboot. But it has worked ever since. > > BTW, I am starting qmail via inetd, and not using the tcpserver stuff. > > -Roger > >> >> If you run it from the rc startup script, does tcpserver start correctly? >> If it's not running from inetd, it would need to have tcpserver handle >> it's connections on port 25. >> >> HTH, Jason >> >> On Tue, 3 Jul 2001 at 6:19pm, Moritz Schmitt thought about >> -- David P. Discher dpd2@cec.wustl.edu, dpd@dpdtech.com (314) 518-3795 http://dpd.dpdtech.com/ Founder/Owner of BigDumbGrin.COM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message