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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: problems with qpopper Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 19:43:53 -0700 Organization: Erols Internet Services Lines: 29 Message-ID: <31C617E9.4C9F@www.play-hookey.com> References: <dwoods-0706961055100001@furball.metcomp.com> <31C590D8.7DE1@center.uscs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) L. Scott Emmons wrote: > > Darrin R. Woods wrote: > > > > I have never set up a pop3 server and its been awhile since I've had to > > administer a UNiX system... > > > > Jun 5 15:21:05 babs inetd[7283]: cannot execute /usr/libexec/popper: Exec > > format error > > Sounds like FreeBSD is having trouble loading the binary. Are you sure you have the > right binary for FreeBSD? > This one has come up before, and has me a bit curious. I'm running 2.1R and pulled down the qpop package straight from the 2.1R packages collection. This package installs itself in /usr/local/libexec rather than /usr/libexec . The commented line at the bottom of /etc/inetd.conf agrees with the package installation. All I had to do was uncomment this line and reboot after adding the qpop package and popper has worked fine ever since. I would suggest that you check the package installation path and your inetd.conf file. Also, if you pulled qpop from an alternate source and compiled it directly, you may have overlooked something in the configuration. Try the prefab package for your particular edition of FreeBSD. I hope this helps! Ken