Le 01/18/04 "Joseph A. Nagy, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit notamment:
> Jason Stubbs wrote: >> -----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. > > I've sent out test emails which have been replied to (as well as sending > myself test messages) and root should be getting system related email > (from vcron or what not) > >> >>>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. > > I've checked the logs and they don't make sense. The last entry (which > is no longer repeated but exim still dies on startup) refered to a line > that was commented out. Even so I removed the entry for that line, kept > an eye on the clock and waited two minutes, started exim, checked the > logs, no error, then tried to restart with the same error as above but > nothing recorded in the log file (I'm checking > /var/log/exim/exim_main.log and exim_panic.log) as to why it's still dieing. [...] This part of the default exim.conf is important; if you try to restart exim with a bad exim.conf it will refuse. So don't forget to run this command and restart only if it is correct: # # # It is usually a good idea to test a new configuration for syntactic # # correctness before installing it (for example, by running the command # # "exim -C /config/file.new -bV"). # # # ########### IMPORTANT ########## IMPORTANT ########### IMPORTANT ########### hth, -- Jean Magnan de Bornier 3 Cours Victor Hugo, 13980 Alleins France Tel: 04 90 59 33 94 Port: 06 09 17 35 87 m�l: jm.bornier*at*free.fr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
