This line from your xinetd.conf file is significant: includedir /etc/xinetd.d This is telling you that the config files for everything currently configured to start out of xinetd (the 'enabled on demand' stuff) are in /etc/xinetd.d/. In that directory you should see a bunch of files. One of them is probably called ipop3d. If you look in that file you'll probably see a line that says "disable = yes". Change the yes to a no and then restart xinetd with a (on a redhat 7.x system): /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart If you then telnet to port 110 it should now connect properly and not return a 'connection refused' message. For more information on xinetd, you can take a look at the man pages with a 'man xinetd'. Hope that helps, Jeff On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Raymond Norton wrote: > I can see now that ipop3d is not running, It seems to start manually, and > says it is ready for a brief time, then says it is closing because of > inactivity.When I telnet locally to port 110, it says connection refused. > hosts.allow, and hosts.deny are empty, except for some commented lines. In > Linuxconf I have ipop2d and ipop3d, but it does not respond to any changes > that I try to implement. I have another server that works perfect, which > says ipop2d and ipop3d are "enabled on demand". I do not have a inetd.conf, > rather xinetd.conf, which I have attached . It doesn't seem to have the info > you said I should find. I am able to send mail from the server. Is there > something else I need to enable for pop3d to start, or would a removal and > new install of ipop3d make the proper conf changes? > > > Raymond > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <florin at iucha.net> > To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 4:22 PM > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] no socket error problem > > >