[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Exim's panic logfile shows "TCP service "smtp" not found"
...that suggests that /etc/services is corrupt... > daddy:~# telnet localhost > telnet: could not resolve localhost/telnet: Servname not supported for > ai_socktype ...as does this. You probably need to reinstall the netbase package, using --force-confnew or --force-confmiss to force dpkg to reinstall the configuration file. (--force-confnew will overwrite /etc/protocols, /etc/rpc, /etc/services, and /etc/init.d/networking, but it seems unlikely that you'd manually edit these; enough things depend on netbase that purging and reinstalling it won't work.) /etc/services contains a mapping from a service name to a TCP or UDP port number, so things can use names rather than well-known port numbers. I'd expect programs to contain fallbacks -- even if /etc/services doesn't contain an entry for "smtp", port 25 is fairly well-known -- but apparently neither exim nor telnet do. > 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 get that too; I haven't figured out a good way to disable it yet (though I haven't looked hard); I'd be happier making logcheck not send me mail about it, which should be easier to fix. It does seem to be normal, and an artifact of exim setting up a cron job to periodically run its outgoing mail queue. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
