Re: [cobalt-users] popper dying

[Chris McGinnis <chrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've had this same problem recently.  I do tail -f /var/log/messages and 
get an error saying: pop-3/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated

qpopper's site says it's inetd's limiting 40 connections to any single 
service within a minute.  I've changed it by adding: nowait.60 to the line 
for qpopper in /etc/inetd.conf to allow 60 connections and it seems to be 
working fine.  As for your mailserver coming back up it's because a monitor 
runs every 15 mins and if the server isn't running it will try to start it 
again.

Hope this helps
-Chris

At 01:58 PM 4/25/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> I've been experiencing something recently where the popper on my raq4 dies
> randomly, but then comes back up without any interaction by myself.
> This was happening with qpopper (not very much, but happening).
> I installed popa3d on the machine to see if that would help, but now it
> only "stalls" more than before.
> I can switch back to qpopper but it will only do the same.
>
> I am wondering did the box get messed up somehow which is causing this or
> is the inet daemon not working properly.
>
> I'm fairly good with linux but this one is a lil beyond me and has been
> stumping me for 3 days.
>
> Any help from anyone?
>
> -Randy Herban
>
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