Bug 66566 – qpopper acts like a standalone server even if started from xinetd

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description muco 2004-10-06 14:13:46 UTC]

qpopper acts like a standalone server (-S) even if started from xinetd (without -S). The connection is accepted and then is immediatly closed. After restarting a few times xinetd i had a failure and a ps showed qpopper there up and running (and working fine). My guess is that it tries to run as a standalone but i haven't looked into the source (yet).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.install qpopper and launch it from xinetd
2.try to connect to the pop3 server, here i have connection accepted and closed without the daemon banner
3.try to restart xinetd a bunch of times untill it get a fault
4. try to connect to the pop3 server, now here it works (for me)

Actual Results:  
as i described in the steps above

Expected Results:  
the connecion should be accepted when running from xinetd

[Comment 1 Tuan Van (RETIRED) 2004-10-06 15:20:11 UTC]

please post your `emerge qpopper -vp`

[Comment 2 Fernando J. Pereda (RETIRED) 2005-03-01 11:51:12 UTC]

4 months old and got no response. Anyway the bug doesn't seem to be Gentoo-related but upstream. Anyway, i RESOLVED->NEEDINFO till we get the info we need.

Cheers,
Ferdy

[Comment 3 Luca Barbato 2005-03-02 03:03:24 UTC]

Talked with the user (a friend of mine)

[Comment 4 Luca Barbato 2005-03-02 03:06:32 UTC]

Was probably a new useflag issue on upgrade. Now works for him (feedback by irc)