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.
It is.
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 had several people reply to test messages that I've sent them from my system mail account (regular user, of course) and I've not recieved a single one back.
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 other then a duplicate entry there was nothing in there to indicate why it's failing to continue running after I start it.
-- Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. Student at Motlow State Community College Political Activist Extrodinaire The only fallacy is the inaction on our part to stave off the worst of horrors, the stripping of personal freedom.
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