Re: pop3d - Unable to scan $HOME/Maildir??

[Dave Sill]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>pop-3 stream tcp nowait root /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup qmail-popup \
>mailer.famvid.com /var/qmail/bin/checkpoppasswd \
>/var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir &
>
>( I've tried wtih and without the trailing '&', what's that for anyway?
>)

The ampersand (&) tells the shell running a command to run the command 
in the background. To see the difference, at a shell prompt do:

    sleep 10

then

    sleep 10 &

inetd.conf entries should *not* be run in the background.

-Dave