[NTLUG:Discuss] qmail, closing an open relay, and startup issues.

[Richard Geoffrion]

RE: [NTLUG:Discuss] qmail, closing an open relay, and startup issues.Sorry about that!  I went back and looked and as a troubleshooting step I HAD put it in rc.local.  Still no go.  

Is there a way to convert this to a line that can be used in inetd.conf?


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: TJ Davis 
  To: 'discuss at ntlug.org' 
  Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 2:05 PM
  Subject: RE: [NTLUG:Discuss] qmail, closing an open relay, and startup issues.


  Have you tried the rc.local file?  In redhat the path is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local"  I am not sure if it is the same in slcakware or not but probably so.  The only bad thing about it is that you cannot tell it which runlevel to start in...it just gets started last.  Perhaps rc.M does the same as rc.local though because I am not familiar with rc.M.  Anyways, give rc.local a try.

  T.J. Davis 
  Southwestern A/G University 
  Information Technology 
  tjdavis at sagu.edu 
  (972) 937-4010 ext. 1255 
  1 Timothy 4:12 



  -----Original Message----- 
  From: Richard Geoffrion [mailto:ntlug at rain.lewisville.tx.us] 
  Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 1:38 PM 
  To: discuss at ntlug.org 
  Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] qmail, closing an open relay, and startup 
  issues. 



  {Distro: Slackware 8} 

  Greetings once again all. 

  I've been amiss in my duties of closing an open qmail relay.  I have finally 
  gone through the steps and have it closed down.  The unfortunate thing is 
  that  I can't get the SMTP server up and running automatically.   I must 
  always login to the server and execute the tcpserver command manually. 

  I disabled the smtp service from the /etc/inetd.conf file 
  #smtp stream tcp nowait qmaild /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env tcp-env 
  /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 

  and added the line 

  tcpserver -x/etc/mail/tcp.smtp.cdb -u1002 -g102 0 smtp 
  /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd & 

  in my /etc/rc.d/rc.M script.  Well, the SMTP server doesn't want to start 
  from there and when started manually the service has just stopped or shut 
  down a few times.  There is mention of downloading another djb tool to use 
  for starting up services, but quite frankly I'd rather not use that.  I'd 
  rather just use good ol fashion inetd to do my dirty work.  (At least I 
  THINK that's what I want..) 

  So...Can someone point me in the right direction on getting the smtp 
  service? (or convert me to the use of yet another {seemingly} stinkin djb 
  tool.  @^@@#$ @^&&#$ **!* crackers!  none of this would be so necessary if 
  not for them!  UG! 



  -Richard 



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