Re: inetd killing pop3d

[lists@lina.inka.de (Bernd Eckenfels)]

Hi,

> inetd[139]: pop-3/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated

> Anyone know what the inetd daemon.log entry means or what may be causing =
> it?=20

There is a limt of 40connections/minute in inetd. If you have more
connections in a minut inetd will disable the service for 10minutes for
loop-prevention. You can specify a higher limit for the servive with:


pop-3          stream  tcp     nowait.100  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.pop3d
                                     ^^^^

NOTE: since you wrote you wont get that many requests there is eighter an
error in the connection detection of inetd, or your pop3d isnt executed
everytime a connection is comming in (check hosts.* and the tcpd syslog).

Greetings
Bernd
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