Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 22:35:02 -0500 From: Travis Ruthenburg <travis@trickster.net> To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: popauth woes Message-ID: <199811290424.XAA18006@trickster.net>
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I'm a newbie to FreeBSD and Unix in general. I hope my question is easily answered by someone out there. I am using popauth (popb4smtp ?) on my FreeBSD machine. If you're not familiar with popauth, it's a set of three scripts that prevent mail relaying. The watcher script watches for users checking their POP accounts. After a user checks their pop account, their ip is added to a directory. The allow script then allows any ip in the directory to use the smtp server. Finally, after a set number of minutes, the expire script removes the ip address from the directory. More information can be found at <http://spam.abuse.net/tools/smPbS.html>. To quote the site: "Run this watcher in the background, killing and restarting it from cron whenever the syslog (and its own log) files are rotated. (Use the watcher.pid file)" This explains why popauth would systematically crap out on me. So, my question is, how exactly do I use cron to kill and restart the watcher? Any help is greatly appreciated. Travis Ruthenburg bjork bjork bjork travis@trickster.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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