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From: ianhogg@cs.umn.edu (Ian J. Hogg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: pop3 mail server not recognized
Message-ID: <1991May1.180429.16755@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 1 May 91 18:04:29 GMT
References: <1991May1.143510.25127@macc.wisc.edu>
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
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In article <1991May1.143510.25127@macc.wisc.edu> pcrump@vms.macc.wisc.edu writes:
>
>I would first like to thank Shun'ichiro Cho from Tokyo, Japan, and John Kemp
>from the University of Illinois for their help and advice.  From what they
>have told me, popper (pop3 server) is running on HP9000/835 and HP9000/840
>computers.  I have a HP9000/825 and can't seem to get the pop3 server to run.
>It keeps saying "pop/tcp: Unknown service" when /etc/inetd is started up.
>It doesn't seem to make any difference whether a pop2 process is running or
>not.  I have also tried rebooting.
>
>The important files seem to be /etc/services, /etc/inetd.conf.  These are
>listed at the end of this message.  Immediately following are the lines
>which pertain to pop3 from these files.
>
>Anyone have any clues?
>
>file: /etc/services
>    pop 110/tcp
>
>file: /etc/inetd.conf
>    pop stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/etc/popper popper -t /usr/adm/pop.log
>
>error message when executing "/etc/inetd -l"
>     pop/tcp: Unknown service
>
    Maybe you are running YP?  If that's the case, then "/etc/services"
(as well as other files) are ignored by certain system calls.  If you are 
running YP modify /etc/services on the master server and then run ypmake.

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