Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3627 mails)

[Michael Hasenstein <mha@xxxxxxxx>]

"Mark W. Knecht" wrote:
> 
> Hello,
>    Can in this morning to find two problems with my SuSE Email Server:
> 
> 1) Outlook is telling me that there's no POP3 server where there was one
> yesterday

Use the windows telnet client and connect to the email server, port 110.
If it works the server is up, running, and fine. The result is a line
that looks like
+OK psimap Cyrus POP3 v1.6.24 server ready

just type "quit<return>" (and you just typed your first POP command ;-)
) to get out.


> 2) If I try and edit user data using the SuSE browser GUI I get the
> following rude error, which looks like Apache can't find something, but
> unfortunately no other information:
> 
> Content-type: text/html
> Software error:
> can't connect to vivaldi.controlnet.com: Bad file descriptor
> For help, please send mail to the webmaster (root@localhost
> <mailto:root@localhost>), giving this error message and the time and date of
> the error.

try telnet again, this time to port 80. If it connects, type
GET /index.html HTTP\1.1

(you're talking the HTTP protocol now...)
This should get you the HTML for the first page, which is about 20
lines. If it works the server is fine.

Next step if either/both don't work: login on the server, look at if the
processes (httpd) are running, look at /var/log/messages and
/var/log/httpd*


>    Anyone know where I should start looking?
> 
>    Vivaldi is the name of the email server, and I was logged into Vivaldi
> with my browser when attempting to edit user data (using the SuSE GUI) when
> this occurred. It is repeatable.