On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 08:50:31AM -0500, William O'Higgins wrote: > I recently ran portupgrade to get to a state that approximates current, > and when I rebooted exim is not running. It used to, just fine, but now > when I boot I've got no MTA. I can tell you, fetchmail thinks this is > quite the problem :-) > > What could have caused this? As far as I can tell it was being started > *somehow* before, and now it isn't. It works fine if I just remember to > # sudo exim -bd -q5m > but I think it shouldn't have stopped starting just because of a > portupgrade. I went from exim 4.12 to 4.24, but there are no changes in > the configuration needed for that update.
I'm pretty sure that sometime during that gap a requirement for exim_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf was introduced. Ceri --
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