Re: Inetd: smtp/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated
Try using tcpserver, I have installed it on my qmail server with no problems.
The package is ucspi-tcp-src on slink, no binary package is allowed so you have
to build it.
On Mon, 17 May 1999, John Pearson wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I receive my mail via uucp and send it to am internal machine
> via smtp; that means that each time I poll, there are many (30-200)
> brief smtp connections to my mail spool.
>
> I noticed today that some incoming messages were queued on my uucp
> host, and saw the following in /var/log/syslog on my mail server:
> inetd[164]: smtp/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated
> although there was no sign of trouble in /var/log/exim/*.
>
> I'm guessing that exim was forking to perform the local delivery
> and was returning so quickly that inetd assumed something was
> broken.
>
> For the moment I'm running exim as a stand-alone daemon rather
> than from inetd, but I'd like to be able to use inetd because it
> allows me to use TCP wrappers. I also want exim to return quickly
> rather than delivering in the foreground.
>
> How can I get inetd to work nicely with exim?
>
>
> John P.
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