Re: [cobalt-users] POP 3 stopped suddenly

["Gilles Dumangin" <gilles_dumangin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have been checking a lot of things that have been suggested to me...

> Is it possible your colo or someone performed an upgrade for you? The
> named user lines are typical for installing the bind security patch...

Nope, I am the only one with access to this machine so nobody could perfom 
an upgrade for me

> Log in with telnet and poke around the .cobalt hidden directories,
> there are install logs that will say who did upgrades, (I think they should 
> show up in /var/log/https/adm_access or such (varies a bit by machine) 
> which has web hits for admin GUI, should show you someone accessing GUI ti 
> install if that happened...
>  also try 'last |less' which will show most recent telnet/ssh/ftp logins

I have checked and the only connection that I see is a ftp connection around 
that time from the machine loop address

Feb 17 13:30:01 raq3 in.proftpd[21234]: connect from 127.0.0.1
Feb 17 13:30:22 raq3 imapd[23604]: connect from 127.0.0.1
Feb 17 13:30:43 raq3 in.telnetd[27180]: connect from 127.0.0.1

the 'last |less' shows nothing connected to the machine up to 20 hours 
before and 4 hours after the POP server stopped


> > Feb 17 13:15:22 raq3 in.qpopper[7038]: Active_Monitor_69@localhost: -
> > ERR POP EOF received
> OK, re pop, the above tells me that pop is at least running, which is
> good, however that line is just the internal monitor testing it, you have 
> to see if you can find some other error (eg No such user, Access denied, or 
> something...) look also in the 'secure' log , it should show your attempt 
> to connect to pop, if you don't appear there at all you have something else 
> weird going on....

that error does not appear after the POP server stopped, I can't see any 
connection to qpopper after the server stopped at all in the 'secure' log

> if you see 'Can not get connonical name of cluent, you have a nameserver 
> problem, tho it's possible it's at the other end (eg the machine tryig to 
> get email has no reverse domain name)

I got that error a few times the days before the POP server stopped but not 
anymore (as the POP server is not there - I think)


Is there a way to restart the pop server manually? Is that the way to go? 
Everything else is working fine and all the emails are currently stacked on 
the server, so they arrive fine to the machine, no use can pick them up, 
that'a ll.

Thanbks for your help


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