On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, George Bonser wrote: > > > > On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > No reply, so some more info: > > > > when trying /etc/init.d/exim start|stop|reload or anything, I get no > > message like starting MTA.... I suspect this may be connected with my > > problem. How can I get it working properly, please? > > > > Matthew > > That is because if you look at the /etc/init.d/exim script, you will see > that the first command is > > exit 0 > > This is because exim is normally configured to run from inetd and not as a > stand alone daemon. There is a bug when replacing exim with smail. On > removal, smail completely deletes the smtp entry in /etc/inetd.conf and > exim does not add a new one.
Well, the smtp line is: smtp stream tcp nowait mail /usr/sbin/exim exim -bs is this right? and if so, do you have any idea why mail doesn't work? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/