Re: ftp needed for pop3?!

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

charles@lunargraphics.net said:
> I found this on Redhat's knowledge base:
> 
> pop-3 comes with the imap package. You can pick up the latest at
> ftp.redhat.comin the updates directory of the distribution that you have.
> Install it using
> rpm -Uvh and make sure you have a line like the following in your
> /etc/inetd.conf file:
> ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftpd -l -a
> Then, kill -HUP the process number for inetd (you can find this out by
> typing ps aux |grep inetd), and it should work fine. If you have problems,
> you will want to check your /var/log/messages file after HUPing the inetd. 
> 
> Is this correct? 

No.  :-)

Try

    pop-3   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  ipop3d

in /etc/inetd.conf, then just "kill -HUP `cat /var/run/inetd.pid`" (or
just "killall -HUP inetd").

Steve
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