[Sunhelp] wierd problem after installing latest patch cluster

[Shawn C Lander]

We've got a Solaris 2.6 machine.  We just installed
the latest patch cluster.  After installing the
cluster the pop3 and imap servers are not starting.
In other words, if you telnet to the machine's pop3
or imap ports you immediately get 'connection refused'
as if there was nothing listening or being started on
the port.

We verified that imap/pop are still in the /etc/services
file:

pop-2		109/tcp				# Post Office
pop3		110/tcp
imap		143/tcp


And we verified that the servers are in the /etc/inetd.conf
file:

pop     stream  tcp     nowait  root    /opt/local/imap/ipop2d   ipop2d
pop3    stream  tcp     nowait  root    /opt/local/imap/ipop3d   ipop3d
imap    stream  tcp     nowait  root    /opt/local/imap/imapd    imapd


We verified that the pop/imap servers are still located in
the install directory and that they still run... you can execute
them at the command line and get the expected results.

We verified that other services are properly starting through
inetd.  We are able to telnet/ftp to the machine.  We are able
to finger the machine... then comment the finger service out of
inetd.conf, HUP inetd, and not be able to finger as expected.

The machine is not using TCP wrappers... so we know that hosts.deny
is not the culprit.

We tried enabling trace logging and tried running inetd in the foreground
to look for errors but to no avail.  Also, no out of the ordinary
error messages are being logged to syslogd.

The only thing that is different between the time it worked and the
time it doesn't work is the installation of the patch cluster.

With all that, anyone have any ideas what else I could look at to getting
this thing to work?  It's probably something various obvious which I'm
missing.


Thanx for any help.


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 Shawn C. Lander                                    shawn at eng.ufl.edu
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