> I am running Mandrake 8.1 with ipop3sd installed and the service is > enabled on demand. According to the Doc's from Mandrake all I should > have to do is edit the inetd.conf file and restart inetd. I belive that Mandrake uses xinetd by default. They both perform the same function, just have a different approach. To find out, take a look in the /etc/rc*.d directorys, and if you see something like S10inetd or S10xinetd then you should be able to tell. I think the easiest way to do that is ls /etc/rc*.d/S*inetd If you are running xinetd, take a look at the documentation (man pages) to see if you can figure it out. > Unfortunately inetd in not running or configured but appears to be > installed. As I am still learn Linux, I am not familiar with inetd. Any > help would be great! inetd and xinetd work as a superserver. That is, insetead of having the actual deamon (service) running all the time, (x)inetd listens instead, and when it gets a connection on a port, it spawns off the deamon required for it. This allows some security checks/logging and other bennifits (as well as some drawbacks in certain cases) -- Jay Kline list at slushpupie.com http://www.slushpupie.com -- And do you think (fop that I am) that I could be the Scarlet Pumpernickel?