Drew Smith <drew@???> probably said:
> Ok, let's ask this again, assuming this time that I've already checked
> all the obvious places. ;)
How about
ls -aFl /etc/services
followed by
chmod a+r /etc/services
> > 2000-01-09 11:18:44 127Gcq-0006vF-00 TCP service "smtp" not found
If you're running it out of inetd then it can get the service name
(or exim would never run for incoming mail), my guess would be exim
cannot read /etc/services as the user you are running it as (mail ?).
P.
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