I misinterpreted the qpopper INSTALL instructions and created the directory 
/usr/local/lib/popper.  That is the location I copiled the qpopper source.  
My next mistake was setting the line in inetd.conf to 
/usr/local/lib/popper popper -s, 
which is a directory.  It worked when I changed the line to be 
/usr/local/lib/popper/popper popper -s.
Thanks to Daniel Benson and Robert L. McMillin
Original post follows:
>I have searched the archives and found several postings regarding Qualcomm's 
>qpopper, but none detail all the steps necessary to get qpopper up and running.
>Can someone who has already done so, please email me these steps.
>
>I downloaded qpopper version 2.4b2, successfully built it, but have problems
>getting it configured on my system.  
>
>1. Added the following line to /etc/services
>   pop3  110/tcp  # Post Office
>
>2. Added the following line to /etc/inetd.conf
>   pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/lib/popper popper -s
>
>3. Sent the PID of inetd a kill -HUP
>
>4. When I try telneting to hostname pop3I get the following
>   telnet pgw6 pop3 
>   Trying 144.54.21.40...
>   Connected to pgw6.
>   Escape character is '^]'.
>   Connection closed by foreign host.
>
>   And the following messge is logged in daemon.log
>   pgw6 inetd[3768]: execv /usr/local/lib/popper: Permission denied
>
>5. Both /usr/local/lib/popper and /usr/local/lib/popauth  are setuid and
>   are owned by the user pop.  Tried changing the owner to root but it
>   made no difference.
>
>5. I made ONLY one change to the Makefile.  That was the addition of the 
>   -DDEBUG directive.
>
>Thanks for any help you can provide.
>
>-Jack
Received on Wed Oct 08 1997 - 01:00:07 NZDT