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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!nntp2.crl.com!news.gv.tsc.tdk.com!newsfeed.wli.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.connectnet.com!not-for-mail From: Eric Hedstrom <erich@compecon.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: poppassd hangs Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 09:46:27 -0700 Organization: Computer Economics, Inc. Lines: 26 Message-ID: <33AAB3E3.9CB9ACEA@compecon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: carbon.compecon.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0 [en] (Win95; U) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43279 Greetings, I am trying to use the poppassd port with my 2.2.2-Release system. When I connect to it, either with Eudora or with "telnet localhost 106", it changes the password but then hangs before coming back to accept the "quit" command. Eudora times out, and I have to disconnect the telnet session manually. If I then look with ps, there is a poppassd process that is either sleeping or idle (depending on how long it's been) and the "leader of its session." And ps lists a passwd process that has those two characteristics along with "trying to exit". 20909 ?? Is 0:00.06 poppassd 20910 ?? IEs 0:00.00 (passwd) If I kill the passwd process to put it out of its misery, the poppassd process is still hung and has to be killed separately. I have looked at the patched poppassd.c source code, and the strings it is looking for from passwd look the same as what passwd puts out. So what am I missing? Any pointers will be greatly appreciated (unless they are void..). :) Eric Hedstrom erich@compecon.com