Bryan Orthner wrote:
>
> I am having a problem which is baffling me. I am trying to retrieve mail
> from vpopmail and am getting sporadic messages:
> -ERR Aack child crashed.
> Generally, if I recheck the pop mail a second time, the access succeeds, so
> I know the passwords are not the problem. I have noticed that the problem
> is much more common with Eudora clients than with Outlook Express clients,
> but both have occasionally had problems. Any thoughts?
>
> My system is Mandrake Linux 7 with qmail 1.03, daemontools 0.70, ucspi-tcp
> 0.84, and vpopmail 4.9. I configured vpopmail with the following line:
>
> ./configure --enable-default-domain=rongenet.sk.ca
> --enable-relay-clear-minutes=180 --enable-roaming-users=y
> --enable-tcpserver-file=/etc/tcp.smtp --enable-logging=e
>
> My init script for qmail - POP is as follows:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> exec /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -c 100 -H -R -l gandalf.rongenet.sk.ca -u
> 1001 -g 508 0 pop3 \
> /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup rongenet.sk.ca \
> /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir
>
> I have verified that the locations are correct in config.h for all programs
> and files.
>
> Help!
>
> Bryan Orthner
> Technical Coordinator,
> Keewatin Career Development Corp.
Try changing a shell to the vpopmail user
su - vpopmail
then running tcprules to compile /etc/tcp.smp file.
It is probably crashing when it exec's tcprules
Ken Jones
