Hi Drew;
Did you tell dpkg during the installation to run it as a deamon?
inetd _should_ launch exim as the virtual package for mail otherwise.
It sounds as though your problem was indeed different than the one that
I experienced. I have not tried to use exim on any potato machine except
as a daemon so I don't know whether it works or not.
I am afraid that (many months ago) I was so confused when I was trying
to solve this "same" problem that I did not try to figure out where the
problem was really located.
In /etc/init.d/exim I commented out the line with:
update-inetd --disable smtp
My note in the file even states that I felt that there must be something
wrong with doing that but that it worked.
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 12:21:54PM -0700, Drew Parsons wrote:
> On 26 Oct 1999, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
>
> > Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> >
> > That means that nobody lisens to port 25.
> >
> > Did you reboot after the update? If you have strange problems like
> > that, a reboot is allways the easiest to check if its a
> > start-stop-deamon problem. If rebooting helps, file abug against exim
> > descibing the problem.
> >
> > If rebooting doesn´t help check the syslog and messages file and exims
> > logfiles.
>
>
> Yes, I tried rebooting (of course ;) ), but it still wasn't working.
> And I could't find *any* messages in the log files that appear related to
> this problem.
>
> But I had another read of the man page for exim, an noticed the option -bd
> which launches exim as a daemon. So I tried that from the command line,
> and yes! it started working. So the real problem was that exim hadn't
> even been started as a daemon yet! Now this sounds somewhat like a potato
> bug to me now!
>
>
> By the way, enlightenment and gnome are also completely not working now
> with potato. They are complaining about imlib and refusing to run.
>
> Thanks for your suggestions.
>
> Drew
>
>
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