Re: How to start pop3d under Solaris 10 ?

From: John Doe (john.doe_at_jasspa.com)
Date: 05/29/05 

Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 13:27:49 +0100

Casper H.S. *** wrote:
> John Doe <john.doe@jasspa.com> writes:
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>
>>How do I run the pop3d under Solaris 10 ?
>>I do not seem to have svc:/network/pop3/tcp:default ?
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>
>>I seem to have problems with this new SMF - cannot quite get my head around why
>>/etc/inetd.conf is converted to some XML format - things used to be nice and simple now they
>>seem to be unecessarily complex, I'm sure there is a good reason for this but I've not
>>figured out what it is.
>
>
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> The good news is that you can still add stuff to /etc/inetd.conf
> and then run a conversion command which takes care of this for you.
>
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> The advantages the new configuration offers are many:
>
> - any extensions to the inetd format would need to be
> cramped in a single line
> - all other configuration option applied equally to all services;
> (enabled tcp wrappers/rate limiting/etc); SMF offers common
> properties for each service and those can be
> set per service
>
> Casper

Thanks for the info, which lead me to find inetconv(1M) which is the converter you are
referring to.

Comment: Would be nice if the Solaris 10 Companion CD included these files pre-built (in
/opt/sfw/var/...) after all the software is destined for Solaris 10. The README.SFWimap
makes reference to /etc/inetd.conf which is correct if the O/S were using it but is not
Solaris 10 ready without some messing around.

John