On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 11:06 +0100, [email protected] wrote: > Some background before my question. > > I have been looking after our local Exim MTA for many years now and I have > always built it from source on our Solaris 9 E250 server. > > The E250 server is very old and one of its disk has just been replaced as it > was failing so the decision has been made to build a new server using a PC > running Linux. > > I installed Ubuntu server 10.04 on the PC and copied over the configuration > file and other files that Exim uses from the old server to the new server. > > Next I downloaded the latest Exim source from exim.org, modified its > Local/Makefile to match that on our old system and followed the instructions > Philip Hazel's 2nd edition Official Guide to Release 4 of Exim. It built > eventually (I had to do an 'apt-get build-dep exim4' before it worked!) and > then did a "make install". > > I have tested sending e-mails from the command line using this new Exim and > they were sent and received OK. > > > The problem I have is following the "section 25.7 Turning Exim on" > instructions in Philip Hazel's book. > > There is /usr/sbin/sendmail file on the system but no /etc/init.d/sendmail as > Ubuntu uses Postfix - it is this file that I had modified on our old Solaris > server to set the Exim queue interval. > > The /etc/init.d/postfix file exists on Ubuntu but when run this exits > immediately as the /etc/postfix/main.cf file does not exist. > > Instead of setting a symbolic link to /usr/sbin/sendmail as the book says, I > have created a symbolic link to the postfix file with the command: > > ln -s /usr/exim/bin/exim /usr/sbin/postfix > > and I then modified the /etc/init.d/postfix file so it checks for the Exim > configuration at the start instead of the /etc/postfix/main.cf file. > > When I issue the /etc/init.d/postfix start command it fails because later in > the script it is looking again for the /etc/postfix/main.cf file. > > > I have extracted the Debian /etc/init.d/exim4 file from its exim4-base > package and I had a look at it but I am not sure if I should go down that > route. > > > So then I thought I would e-mail you experts to ask: > > Has anyone built Exim from source downloaded from exim.org and got it running > on Ubuntu server? > > > Thanks > > > Paul McIlfatrick >
I dont understand why built Exim and start it with postfix script!!!!!!!! i use Exim on Debian but i start it with /etc/init.d/exim -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
