Re: Problems switching from tcpserver to tcpsvd

On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 02:48:44PM +0530, Rajkumar s wrote:
>           I had added the -u qmaild:nofiles option in the run file , 
> But the problem still persists , its repeatedly asking for password
> when i configure the account in outlook express and tried sending
> mails.

I suggest to test by other means than using the mail client to find out
what's going on; probably the patch to qmail you use includes some
documentation on how to test its functionality.

> I too think that the following lines exit 1
>    /Programs/Qmail/1.03/bin/qmail-smtpd \
>    /Programs/Qmail/1.03/bin/checkpassword /bin/true 2>&1

> run file is provided below:
> 
> exec tcpsvd -vv -t1800 \
>    -c100 -C'10:421 per host concurrency limit reached\r\n' \
>    -i/Programs/Qmail/1.03/etc/smtp \
>    -u qmaild:nofiles 202.144.28.164 25 \
>    /Programs/Qmail/1.03/bin/qmail-smtpd \
>    /Programs/Qmail/1.03/bin/checkpassword /bin/true 2>&1

You could check whether the ipsvd instruction work as indended by
dumping the environment to the log, with tcpsvd, and with tcpserver, to
compare them, e.g.

 exec tcpsvd -vv -t1800 \
    -c100 -C'10:421 per host concurrency limit reached\r\n' \
    -i/Programs/Qmail/1.03/etc/smtp \
    -u qmaild:nofiles 202.144.28.164 25 \
    sh -c 'env >&2; exec /Programs/Qmail/1.03/bin/qmail-smtpd \
    /Programs/Qmail/1.03/bin/checkpassword /bin/true' 2>&1

Or dump and compare a system call trace, e.g. under linux

 exec tcpsvd -vv -t1800 \
    -c100 -C'10:421 per host concurrency limit reached\r\n' \
    -i/Programs/Qmail/1.03/etc/smtp \
    -u qmaild:nofiles 202.144.28.164 25 \
    strace -f -o/tmp/trace /Programs/Qmail/1.03/bin/qmail-smtpd \
    /Programs/Qmail/1.03/bin/checkpassword /bin/true 2>&1

HTH, Gerrit.