Re: Error when attempting to start inetd

2007-08-16 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [followup discussion should move to cygwin-apps] According to René Berber on 8/16/2007 10:40 PM: >>From setup.ini, line 11746, the package is uw-imap-imapd, the requires should >>be: > > requires: uw-imap openssl097 > > Also uw-imap-util, same chan

Re: Error when attempting to start inetd

2007-08-16 Thread René Berber
Eric Blake wrote: > According to René Berber on 8/16/2007 1:50 PM: >> Michael Grand wrote: > >>> I installed openssl097 and it works. Thanks for the help. >> So it was an error in the (setup) installation database. > > I saw the end of this thread, but didn't catch the answer: Which package's >

Re: Error when attempting to start inetd

2007-08-16 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to René Berber on 8/16/2007 1:50 PM: > Michael Grand wrote: > >> I installed openssl097 and it works. Thanks for the help. > > So it was an error in the (setup) installation database. I saw the end of this thread, but didn't catch the ans

Re: Error when attempting to start inetd

2007-08-16 Thread René Berber
Michael Grand wrote: > I installed openssl097 and it works. Thanks for the help. So it was an error in the (setup) installation database. > There is still a problem where exim will not act as an outgoing SMTP > server unless I add everyone's IP to relay_from_hosts, but since this is > not an ex

Re: Error when attempting to start inetd

2007-08-16 Thread Michael Grand
René Berber wrote: I have both openssl libraries, and this old version of imap depends on the 0.9.7 version of openssl. There is a separate package named openssl097, perhaps the imap package has the wrong dependency and only checked for the latest openssl... if so, then you found a bug in the

Re: Error when attempting to start inetd

2007-08-15 Thread René Berber
Michael Grand wrote: > I added uw-imapd.exe, uw-ipop2d.exe and uw-ipop3d.exe to the exceptions > and I made sure that /var/mail and /var/spool/mail are the same > directory. When I attempt to run uw-imapd, it still gives no output. I > also tried disabling AVG's Email Scanner, but still nothing.

Re: Error when attempting to start inetd

2007-08-15 Thread Michael Grand
René Berber wrote: So again, its not working as intended for you. That test was with the older imapd, which I still have around but not use. I still think the cause of the problem is a firewall, inetd is allowed to use ports 110 and 143 but when control is passed to imapd is blocked. So you

Re: Error when attempting to start inetd

2007-08-15 Thread René Berber
Michael Grand wrote: > I think /var/mail exists because I followed the instructions in this > article: http://pigtail.net/LRP/exim/exim-cygwin.html Ugh! That guy is known to make a mess, I don't say the instructions are wrong, I didn't read them or need them, but too many people come here after

Re: Error when attempting to start inetd

2007-08-15 Thread Michael Grand
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Re: Error when attempting to start inetd

2007-08-15 Thread IfThenSoftware
René Berber wrote: Wrong again, I have a soft link, not a hard link. It doesn't make a difference but you could also use: ln -s /var/mail /var/spool/mail But there's something wrong here, you said /var/mail does exist, it didn't in my case. I had /var/spool/mail and created the link as `ln

Re: Error when attempting to start inetd

2007-08-15 Thread René Berber
René Berber wrote: > Michael Grand wrote: > >> René Berber wrote: >> >>> They have to be the same directory, thus the hardlink (man ln): >>> >>> ln /var/mail/spool /var/mail >>> >>> of course this has to be done after you delete the directory you created. >> /var/mail/spool does not exist. Do you

Re: Error when attempting to start inetd

2007-08-15 Thread René Berber
Michael Grand wrote: > René Berber wrote: > >> They have to be the same directory, thus the hardlink (man ln): >> >> ln /var/mail/spool /var/mail >> >> of course this has to be done after you delete the directory you created. > > /var/mail/spool does not exist. Do you mean /var/spool ? No, I c

Re: Error when attempting to start inetd

2007-08-15 Thread Michael Grand
René Berber wrote: They have to be the same directory, thus the hardlink (man ln): ln /var/mail/spool /var/mail of course this has to be done after you delete the directory you created. /var/mail/spool does not exist. Do you mean /var/spool ? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/

Re: Error when attempting to start inetd

2007-08-15 Thread René Berber
Michael Grand wrote: > René Berber wrote: > >> Oops! I forgot something I did to make imap work, exim and uw-imap have >> different definitions of the mail spool so I did a hard link between >> /var/mail >> and /var/mail/spool. That probably is what the error "The network >> path was not >> foun

Re: Error when attempting to start inetd

2007-08-15 Thread Michael Grand
René Berber wrote: Oops! I forgot something I did to make imap work, exim and uw-imap have different definitions of the mail spool so I did a hard link between /var/mail and /var/mail/spool. That probably is what the error "The network path was not found" meant, imapd could not find /var/mai

Re: Error when attempting to start inetd

2007-08-15 Thread René Berber
Michael Grand : Oops! I forgot something I did to make imap work, exim and uw-imap have different definitions of the mail spool so I did a hard link between /var/mail and /var/mail/spool. That probably is what the error "The network path was not found" meant, imapd could not find /var/mail. -- R

Re: Error when attempting to start inetd

2007-08-15 Thread Michael Grand
Chris Taylor wrote: They tend to proxy incoming mail ports. If you happen to be running a mailserver on localhost, this is usually going to break. Almost all of those connections will be to AVG (though thunderbird will not be aware of that). I disabled AVG's "E-Mail Scanner" but I still canno

Re: Error when attempting to start inetd

2007-08-15 Thread Chris Taylor
Michael Grand wrote: René Berber wrote: Probably your firewall is blocking any communication. I have tried this with the firewall turned off, and I still cannot connect. The port is in the allow list, so it should work anyways. Would AVG or SpySweeper block the pop3 and imap ports? Exim a

Re: Error when attempting to start inetd

2007-08-15 Thread Michael Grand
René Berber wrote: Probably your firewall is blocking any communication. I have tried this with the firewall turned off, and I still cannot connect. The port is in the allow list, so it should work anyways. Would AVG or SpySweeper block the pop3 and imap ports? Exim appears to work fine, a

Re: Error when attempting to start inetd

2007-08-14 Thread René Berber
Michael Grand wrote: > Thanks, putting -D in the arguments list fixed the problem. However, it > does not let me access the pop3 server or the imap server. Here is what > my output looks like: > $ telnet localhost 110 > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to FAMILYROOM. > Escape character is '^]'. >

Re: Error when attempting to start inetd

2007-08-14 Thread Michael Grand
Thanks, putting -D in the arguments list fixed the problem. However, it does not let me access the pop3 server or the imap server. Here is what my output looks like: $ telnet localhost 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to FAMILYROOM. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host.

Re: Error when attempting to start inetd

2007-08-14 Thread René Berber
Michael Grand wrote: > It appears as though "inetd --install-as-service" is either bugged or I > somehow used it incorrectly (although I can't see how that would have > happened, it's pretty straight forward). I reinstalled inetutils and > instead of running "inetd --install-as-service" I ran thi

Re: Error when attempting to start inetd

2007-08-14 Thread Michael Grand
It appears as though "inetd --install-as-service" is either bugged or I somehow used it incorrectly (although I can't see how that would have happened, it's pretty straight forward). I reinstalled inetutils and instead of running "inetd --install-as-service" I ran this command: 'cygrunsrv -I i

Re: Error when attempting to start inetd

2007-08-14 Thread René Berber
Michael Grand wrote: > René Berber wrote: > >> What about `inetd --install-as-service`? > > Yes, although possibly not in the version of cygcheck that I attached, > as I have been through several reinstalls to try and fix this. I have > attached a new cygcheck result. > > >> does `cygrunsrv -

Re: Error when attempting to start inetd

2007-08-14 Thread Michael Grand
René Berber wrote: What about `inetd --install-as-service`? Yes, although possibly not in the version of cygcheck that I attached, as I have been through several reinstalls to try and fix this. I have attached a new cygcheck result. does `cygrunsrv -Q inetd` or a `cygrunsrv -L` shows th

Re: Error when attempting to start inetd

2007-08-14 Thread René Berber
Michael Grand wrote: > René Berber wrote: > >> Looking at your cygcheck.out inetd doesn't appear as a service, did you >> run >> iu-config? have you read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/inetutils-1.3.2.README? > > Yes and yes. What about `inetd --install-as-service`? does `cygrunsrv -Q inetd` or a `cyg

Re: Error when attempting to start inetd

2007-08-14 Thread Michael Grand
René Berber wrote: Looking at your cygcheck.out inetd doesn't appear as a service, did you run iu-config? have you read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/inetutils-1.3.2.README? Yes and yes. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/pr

Re: Error when attempting to start inetd

2007-08-14 Thread René Berber
Michael Grand wrote: > When I attempt to start inetd using "net start inetd" it reports this error: > "The service is not responding to the control function". The service is > installed, and I can attempt to run it from the services manager but I get > this error: "Error 1053: The service did not

Error when attempting to start inetd

2007-08-14 Thread Michael Grand
When I attempt to start inetd using "net start inetd" it reports this error: "The service is not responding to the control function". The service is installed, and I can attempt to run it from the services manager but I get this error: "Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or co