Re: [cobalt-users] [Qube2] Cobalt Security Advisory - 07.24.2000 - Qpopper

[Jeff Lovell <jlovell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"dr. mikey." wrote:
> 
> jeff, a couple or three questions if you don't mind...

Of course I don't mind.

> (1) in the address above, shouldn't it be:
> ftp://ftp.cobalt.com/pub/packages/qube2/eng/Qube2-en-OSUpdate-3.0.pkg

Doh! :(  My bad.
 
> (2) i have installed update 3.0 (ftp'd from the above url) on our qube2,
> but when i telnet to the local host it reports that qpopper is still
> running version 2.53.  what do you think went wrong here (i did look
> inside the os 3.0 update, and of course the promissed qpopper rpm is
> there)?  what, if anything, should i do now?

I can't imagine what went wrong here.  When installing the RPMS it
uses --force and --nodeps which should install the RPM as long as it
isn't corrupted.  And if it is corrupted and the RPM install fails,
the entire update should error out with the error:

"Problem installing package component: RPMNAME"

You can download the RPM and install it manually from
here:

ftp://ftp.cobaltnet.com/pub/products/qube2/RPMS/qpopper-3.0.2-1C2.mips.rpm
 
> (3) after installing the os 3.0 pkg (through the gui), the
> pop-before-smtp stopped working.  i thought perhaps the os 3.0 had
> disabled or removed it, so i reinstalled the pkg, however, it still
> didn't work untill i manually stopped and restarted the smtp server.
> (there really isn't a question here, more of a comment really, but just
> to be safe i though i would mention it).  any thoughts?

I am working on a patch for pop-before-smtp now and should have
it out later today.

Jeff

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Jeff Lovell
Cobalt Networks, Inc.