Re: [Exim] starting exim

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Author: Odhiambo Washington
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To: Exim Users
CC: Midwest Mold
Subject: Re: [Exim] starting exim
* Midwest Mold <midwestmold@???> [20010731 19:57]: writing on the subject '[Exim] starting exim'
Midwest> First I will appologize for my ignorance in needing to ask this
Midwest> quetsion. I am just getting my feet wet with linux & find myself
Midwest> stumbling more than I want to admit. That said, I am installing
Midwest> exim-3.22 on a p90, 32 m ram, 10g hd, rh7.1. I think I have nearly
Midwest> everything set, but I can't figure out what starts the exim daemon. I
Midwest> did rpm -e sendmail which removed all traces of sendmail from
Midwest> /etc/rc.d/. I think there should be something in /etc/rc.d to start exim
Midwest> shouldn't there? It seems like I should see a pointer to exim in rc.d.
Midwest> If I type exim -bV I get command not found, while /usr/exim/bin/exim -bV
Midwest> returns good data.
Midwest> Thanks for the input.
Midwest> Tim Spencer

wash:~$ which exim

/usr/local/sbin/exim

wash:~$ /usr/local/sbin/exim -bV

Exim version 3.31 #5 built 20-Jul-2001 08:43:13
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2001

wash:~$ locate in/exim

/home/wash/bin/exim_striprecip
/usr/local/sbin/exim
/usr/local/sbin/exim_dbmbuild
/usr/local/sbin/exim_dumpdb
/usr/local/sbin/exim_fixdb
/usr/local/sbin/exim_lock
/usr/local/sbin/exim_tidydb
/usr/local/sbin/eximon
/usr/local/sbin/eximon.bin
/usr/local/sbin/eximstats


HTH


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