This might interest some of us. I took chances with my weekend yesterday, while things looked calm, and
decided that I can upgrade Exim on a production server. I am running FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE with the latest
ports (cvsup Firday 06-07).
First, I killed the Exim daemon, then
cd /usr/local/etc
cp -Rp exim exim.bak (just in case)
pkg_delete -f exim-3.22 (one or two complaints, but okay)
cd /usr/ports/mail/exim (scanned the Makefile just to be sure I have CDB enabled)
make install clean
After that I checked /usr/local/etc/rc.d/
There was no exim.sh
So I went ahead and copied one from somewhere in the system
I checked my configure file, which did not require much modification and believing things are okay, did
sh exim.sh start
ps ax | grep exim - Nothing shows.... exim.sh is set executable.
tail -8 /var/log/exim_paniclog ..Nothing that suggests why exim won't start.
After fiddling for about two hours and can't figure out anything, even from /var/log/messages,
cd /usr/ports/mail/exim && make deinstall
cd /usr/local/sbin && rm -rf exim*
cd /home/wash/Software/exim-3.22
make clean
make install
sh /usr/local/etc/rc.d/exim.sh start and there I was....Exim running again.
Now the $4 million question, Why did exim-3.31 refuse to run? And why doesn't it put the startup script
at the right place?
Thanks.
-Wash
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