[Wylug-help] Mail server problem

[Anne Wilson]

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On Sunday 27 Feb 2005 16:14, Darran Rimron wrote:
> Usually, by default, xinetd won't log anything (in some cases
> distributions change the config and it logs some, but _very_ little -
> eg, username of a unsucsessful login or similar, but there's always more
> ;)  ), because it leaves all that up to the called.  When you remember
> things like both apache and samba can be shoe-horned into
> xinetd-launched-configurations, should the need arise, you can
> understand why xinetd leaves the logging to "someone else", both those
> (as a tiny fraction of examples) could (and do) log far more (relevent)
> information than [x]inetd ever could.
>
Looking at xinetd.conf it seems that syslog is where I should be finding the
info, so attempting to crank up the reporting seems in order.  I'll see what
I can find out about that.

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> Now, in your case, pop3d isn't going to do much without xinetd, so
> that's the place to start. man xinetd (on my debian box) gives some
> pretty helpful options on debugging. For the "newbie" -filelog may be
> easier than -syslog (one less beast to tame and all that....) also
> remember that items such as xinetd fork and background themselves for
> connections so disabling those features help ( see -dontfork & -stayalive)
>
OK - I'll dig deeper.  Thanks for the pointers.

Anne
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