mail stopped working on belial.ucdavis.edu. i've been playing around with portsentry, inetd.conf and tcpwrappers, so it's possible i messed things up and didn't realize it before.
anyhow. the first thing i tried was interesting: p@satan% telnet belial.ucdavis.edu 25 Trying 169.237.43.86... Connected to belial.ucdavis.edu. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. p@satan% so that's why mail stopped working. next i looked at inetd.conf: smtp stream tcp nowait mail /usr/sbin/exim exim -bs i'm no expert at inetd.conf, but this looks good to my untrained eyes. next i looked at the log files: Nov 16 13:12:58 belial inetd[335]: execv /usr/sbin/exim: Permission denied Nov 16 13:13:04 belial inetd[341]: execv /usr/sbin/exim: Permission denied Nov 16 13:14:19 belial inetd[371]: execv /usr/sbin/exim: Permission denied apparently, exim is trying to do something it doesn't have permission to do. like bind to a port. however: belial# ll /usr/sbin/exim -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 471144 Sep 20 10:34 /usr/sbin/exim* i'm running out of ideas. help? pete -- Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
