Re: Newbie trying to support a system

On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 02:51:58AM -0700, Steve G wrote:
> >The system is a little old, running Red Hat 7.2 if that matters.
> 
> What version of xinetd are you running? You should try to run the
> latest RH release as it fixes most of the known bugs.

If you're brave you might want to grab the latest xinetd SRPM from Red
Hat RawHide and rebuild it for your system.  That'll get you xinetd
2.3.12 with all the current patches, instead of the pretty old version
that shipped with 7.2.

If you're not brave, at least make sure you are running the latest
version from updates.redhat.com.

> Also when you do a "service xinetd start", what do you get in
> /var/log/messages?

If you're really getting the Red Hat-shipped xinetd to crash, you
should open a bug report at bugzilla.redhat.com.  (Quickly, while 7.2
is still on the supported list--it gets EoL'd in December (IIRC)) I
can't guarentee a fix, but I will guarentee I'll look at it.

> I'm not 100% sure qmail runs from xinetd. pop3/imap might, but
> the actual smtp would be unusual.

Qmail's smtp listener is easy to configure to run from (x)inetd,
although djb probably recommends ucspi-tcp and daemontools. :-)

That's the other thing: xinetd is incredibly configurable, so we can't
offer much advice without knowing your configuration.  Look at
/etc/xinetd.conf and all the files in /etc/xinetd.d .  In paticular,
pay attention to the ones that start qmail.

			-- JF