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April 02, 2005
A Silly Story
In a previous post, I said pop3 server's installation was very easy. Now, I try to install it on my second FreeBSD server, guess what? I couldn't make it work and looked for help on the mailing list.
Kris helped me very fast, the conversation went on like this:
Me: I installed qpopper and uncommented
pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/libexec/qpopper popper in inetd.conf, blah, blah... lots of background I thought useful.
But why doesn't it work?
Chris: What is logged on the server?
Me: The error message is "inetd[32476]: cannot execute /usr/local/libexec/popper: No such file or directory". But I checked the file, it does exist. I can execute it manually:
./qpopper
Chris: qpopper, not popper
Me: !$#%@$^
A FreeBSD newbie ignores the log information, a computer newbie fails to compare words.
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Posted by FreeBSD Newbie at April 2, 2005 08:56 AM