From: Wil Cooley (no email)
Date: Sun Feb 01 2004 - 19:14:12 EST
On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 13:45, Christopher Robin wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've been following the Cyrus IMAP Howto, as well as a few posts on this
> list, and have successfully made and installed Cyrus IMAP. I have run
> into a problem. According to the Howto, I was supposed to add a couple
> of lines to /etc/inetd.conf. I'm using RH 9, and am not using INETD.
> So, I thought I could just add a couple of files to /etc/xinetd/. The
> format of the files, however, is completely different, so I'm not sure,
> if it's working properly. When I type chkconfig --list, the xinetd
> section shows that imap and pop3 are on, but I'm not sure if that really
> means anything. When I su cyrus, I was able to complete the set up with
> tools/mkimap, as outlined in the Howto, but when I get to imtest -m
> login -p imap localhost, the connection is refused and the reason given
> is network initialization. Nothing useful shows up in /var/log/messages
> or /var/adm/imapd.log or /var/adm/auth.log. Obviously I've missed
> something, but I'm not sure what. Any pointers in the right direction
> would be greatly appreciated.
The HOWTO is considerably out-of-date; Cyrus now uses it's own 'master'
process to control the various sub-systems and not [x]inetd. If you're
using Red Hat, I'd strongly encourage you to use Simon Matter's RPMs at
http://www.invoca.ch/pub/packages/cyrus-imapd/; it will save you tons of
trouble.
Wil
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