Re: Testing tmda-ofmipd

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On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 23:02 -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:
> David Leangen wrote:
> >         server_args     = -1 -p 0.0.0.0:8025
> > --vhome-script /home/vpopmail/bin/vpopmail-vdir.sh -A
> > "/home/vpopmail/bin/v
> > chkpw /usr/bin/true"
> >         log_on_failure  += USERID
> > }
> 
> One thing to note:
> 
> The -p option isn't used in "-1" mode. -p tells tmda-ofmipd which port
> to listen for new connections on. However, in "-1" mode, tmda-ofmipd
> does no listening. Not that it hurts; the value simply is ignored.
> 
> Of course, if you're testing tmda-ofmipd from the command-line, hence
> not using -1 mode, then any -p value is used and could be useful.

Ok, thanks.


> Re: Needing -p when testing outside xinetd, perhaps the vpopmail user
> doesn't have read access to one of:
> 
> /etc
> /etc/nsswitch.conf
> /etc/resolv.conf
> /etc/hosts
> ...
> 
> Assuming of course that your hostname (run "hostname") is actually in
> DNS or /etc/hosts...

They are all world-readable.

However, /etc/hosts does NOT return the FQDN, only the hostname without
the full domain appended... Could that be the problem?

Even when I enter the FQDN in the /etc/hosts file, hostname does not
change...

> I assume that the line-wrapping above is simply due to cut/paste into
> the email, and everything following server_args is on one single long line?

Yep, you assume correctly.


Thanks so much for this!
Dave