Re: error "unable to write pipe"

On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 09:06:12PM +0530, K. Shantanu wrote:
> I have a fresh tinydyndns installed on a server and I am not able to
> get it working. Connecting to it gives,
> 
> user foo
> +OK
> pass foo
> -ERR unable to write pipe
> 
> svstat shows the services as well as logging is up and working. I am
> unable to figure out the reason for this error at all.

This sounds like your checkpassword program fails for some reason, most
probably the 'unable to write pipe' message comes from qmail-popup.

> Can someone deduce anything from this? Or maybe tell what more
> information I need to give.

Try to debug the process chain that uses checkpassword, qmail.org has
some documentation on how to do it.  If that doesn't solve the problem,
post the run script for the pop3 service.

HTH, Gerrit.