-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 18 January 2004 12:46, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: > I have exim installed (and I have problems with that, which I'll discuss > later): > > cbash-2.05b$ cd /var/spool/mail > bash-2.05b$ ls -a > .. .. .keep > bash-2.05b$ > > bash-2.05b$ cd /var/mail > bash-2.05b$ ls -a > .. .. .keep > bash-2.05b$
/var/mail should be a symlink to /var/spool/mail. > As you can see, I have NO system email boxes even though I have four > accounts (three users and root) on the box, exim installed and running > (I can send mail from my system accounts w/o any problem). There should be no mailboxes there until a message is received on an account. > The problem I have with exim comes when I make changes to exim.conf > (cp'd from exim.conf.dist and edited as needed) and then try and run > /etc/init.d/exim restart > > joseph-a-nagy-jr root # /etc/init.d/exim restart > * Stopping exim... > [ !! > ] > > joseph-a-nagy-jr root # > > I then have to zap it and start it back up. What's going on here? This means that the daemon started and died. When you try to restart or stop the daemon, the operation fails (because it is not running). Check any log messages to find out why. - -- Regards, Jason Stubbs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFACgomosKAszmcBv4RAsbqAJ9iMjgr4wPXGAs3+kptvYvTjyM3wQCeIy/5 7SElkmM1QgSQJGYt1mCxYY0= =P7/z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
