dennett@cs.rochester.edu (Charlie Dennett) (01/21/89)
I have a 3/260 and discless 3/60 running 4.0.1. I have a copy of the
document detailing several things that can be done to implement some
performance improvements and have some questions about the suggestions for
sendmail. I do not have a sendmail daemon running on the client, and I
have nfs mounted the mail spool directory on the client from the server.
Everything worked except when I tried to mail a message of the form
user@client. I would get an error message that said connection refused.
I remembered reading about inetd so I went to the manuals to refresh my
memory. I tried putting the appropriate line in inetd.conf and
reinitializing the inetd deamon. This time sendmail (or whatever actually
runs on the server) connected with the client but the client never ran
sendmail. After a few minutes, the server side would time out. (I
investigated all this using both mail -v and mconnect so I could see what
was going on.)
I tried several variations of the line in inetd.conf but nothing worked.
Can it be done and if so, what is the correct format for the entry in
inetd.conf? Must sendmail.cf be changed?
(I also tried, as suggested in the document, using secure nfs. That did
not seem to work at first. Further reading in the document revealed that
the keyserv deamon was needed. I thought I had put it back in the
rc.local file on both the client and server. I'm still having trouble
with it. I'll check once again later. I put the secure option on the
entry in the exports file, but I didnot use the secure option on the
exportfs command. Was that a mistake or is there something else I'm
missing? Right now I am not using secure nfs. I'll look futher into this
problem later, but if there is some known bug I'd appreciate hearing about
it now.)
Thanks for any help.
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