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Re: [cobalt-security] mail crashes
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-security] mail crashes
- From: Jaana Jarve <netcat@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 19:56:20 +0300 (EEST)
- List-id: Mailing list for users to address network security on Cobalt products. <cobalt-security.list.cobalt.com>
> On Wednesday, May 21, 2003, at 11:43 AM, nick 76 wrote:
> > May 21 11:40:37 server inetd[21770]: pop-3/tcp server failing
> > (looping), service terminated
> >
> > Any ideas on why this is happening seems to be happening 2twice or
> > more a day.
it's probably getting more connections per minute than allowed by default.
check the maillog and count how many pop3 connections you get per minute.
you may wish to increase this in inetd.conf. then restart inetd.
rgds,
netcat