On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 21:27, Dan Serban wrote: > Well as you can probably tell from the annoyingly crazy posts coming from me > lately, I've been having trouble with qmail/vpopmail/courier setup, now it's > a thing of the past and I'd like to thank you all for your help. Some > misguided, and some which hit the nail on the head. The one last bit that I > don't like is that the vpopmail FAQ states that ~vpopmail/bin/clearopensmtp > should be run every hour (suggested crontab entry -- 40 * * * *) though I > find that the roaming users option only works if I run this thing every > minute, I assume that it's clearopensmtp that makes the cdb files in order > to handle relaying.
No. vchkpw also makes the .cdb file. > Is this type of operation normal? No, sounds like you did something wrong. > Or is vpopmail > supposed to run the util on its own to update the /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb file? vchkpw and clearopensmtp update the tcp files if they have the permission to do so and have been configured as such. > > I find finding good docs on these packages hard to find, Feel free to write some. Taking and not giving is not a good thing, no? > think that I'll > leave this production server alone and play with the innards a bit so I > understand them better and maybe take it upon myself to write better > documentation... no offense to Ken, the fact that I went completely > bannanas with one (ok 2) packages seems to generally be impossible to me. > So there I've said my piece... I feel better. Glad we could be here to help you feel better. Ken Jones
