Thanks Jim, but when I enter "edit ipop3" I get the error message "bash: edit: command not found" (I made sure I was logged in as root before I enter your commands, too) Ed McCorduck Department of English State University of New York College at Cortland ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mccorduck.cortland.edu http://McCorduck.ws > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Dickenson > Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 7:47 PM > To: RedHat Mail List > Subject: Re: pop won't authenticate my password > > > First, what I do when I want to see what ports are being > listened to is issue the following command: > > netstat -ap | grep LIST > > The p option will require root access. > > This will show the ports that are in the listen state. > > In order to have your POP3 service running, here I assume you > are using xinetd to control this service, issue the following > commands: > > cd /etc/xinetd.d > edit ipop3 > change disable = yes to disable = no > save the file > service xinetd restart > > > This should get stuff working. > -- > Jim Dickenson > mailto:dickenson@xxxxxxxx > > Computers for Marketing Corporation > http://www.cfmc.com/ > > > > > From: "Ed McCorduck" <ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Organization: State University of New York College at Cortland > > Reply-To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 07:17:14 -0500 > > To: <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Subject: RE: pop won't authenticate my password > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx > >> [mailto:redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ben Yau > >> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 7:53 PM > >> To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >> Subject: RE: pop won't authenticate my password > >> > >> > >>> > >>> Thanks, Ben. No, I'm not able to get into my pop server at > >> all either > >>> through the Mozilla client nor through Telnet (see my > >> previous reply > >>> to Rodolfo's message). Is there another way to get into my > >> pop server > >>> to see what's going on? > >> > >> Hi Ed. > >> > >> Here is how I would go about diagnosing: > >> Log into the pop server machine: > >> > >> # netstat -lan > >> > >> That will tell what ports your machine is currently listening to. > >> 110 should show up in the listing similar to: > >> > >> tcp 0 0 10.253.0.150:110 10.253.32.76:2952 > >> TIME_WAIT > >> > >> If it doesn't ,then your pop daemon is not running. > > > > > > Thanks so much, Ben. Here's part of what I got when I did netstat > > -lan: > > > > tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:1024 0.0.0.0:* > > LISTEN > > > > tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:1025 0.0.0.0:* > > LISTEN > > > > tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:783 0.0.0.0:* > > LISTEN > > > > tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:111 0.0.0.0:* > > LISTEN > > > > tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:6000 0.0.0.0:* > > LISTEN > > > > tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:* > > LISTEN > > > > tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* > > LISTEN > > > > tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:631 0.0.0.0:* > > LISTEN > > > > tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:25 0.0.0.0:* > > LISTEN > > > > tcp 0 0 192.168.1.101:3351 192.168.1.100:139 > > TIME_WAIT > > > > I don't see 110 anywhere, so I guess we can conclude that my pop > > daemon is in fact not running and this could be the source of my > > problems. The irritatingly newbie question I have now is > how do I turn > > my pop daemon on? I assumed this would have been done automatically > > when I installed the imap-2001a-18.i3 RPM containing ipop3d that I > > downloaded from Red Hat, but, as with a lot of things lately, my > > memory is fuzzy even as to whether I actually installed > this RPM (if > > indeed I had to download it separately at all; maybe it > even came with > > my download and install of the whole RH9 itself--I sure > wish I could > > remember these things). Anyway, if you could help me get my > pop server > > running, I'd appreciate it. Thanks, and thanks also for > your extensive > > response to my last post. > > > > > > > > Ed McCorduck > > Department of English > > State University of New York College at Cortland > > ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mccorduck.cortland.edu > > http://McCorduck.ws > > > > > > > > > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe > mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?> subject=unsubscribe > > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
