My other letter doesn't seem to have made it through to the list, so I'm posting a different version...
I did a recent reboot into my Sid box after the kids played a few Windoze games, and found a few bizarre behaviors. I cannot fetch mail from my server. Typical message: --- daddy:~# fetchmail 9 messages for daddy at 192.168.0.1 (28311 octets). reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1 of 9 (2946 octets) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from 192.168.0.1 fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP) --- I've Googled this and noted that exim has always been up and working. Fetchmail has too. Things were working before I booted into Windoze then back into Linux. Exim's panic logfile shows "TCP service "smtp" not found" I cannot telnet in/out of the box either: --- daddy:~# telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused daddy:~# telnet localhost telnet: could not resolve localhost/telnet: Servname not supported for ai_socktype (same from the server) --- Last, but quite annoying, I get log messages about cron(pam_unix) going every 15 minutes. I didn't realize this was a normal job, but now knoww it for sure with the messages and the persistent --MARK-- messages. I'm getting very lost in all the information I've read about portmap, inetd, and whatever conf files I've been able to pick up in between (eg. hosts* in /etc). I have no ipchains, etc. on this box as my server acts as the firewall. Does anyone have ideas on what is wrong with this setup? I keep up to date in Sid... is a package screwed up (pam?) somewhere which would cause this mess? Thanks, Kenward -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
