Re: [Exim] Exim listening on port 80

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Author: Nico Erfurth
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To: Patrick Boutilier
CC: Exim Users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim listening on port 80
Patrick Boutilier wrote:

> This morning I got a Nagios alert that my web server was timing out on
> port 80. After shutting down httpd and trying to restart it I realized
> that exim was listening on port 80 for some reason. Below is some output
> from commands I was running on the box. The only other mention I found
> of this problem was at
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/exim-users/message/41359


I don't think you've setup exim to run on port 80 ;)

Well, just a wild guess, but is it possible, that SOMEONE SOMEHOW
managed to start exim via your apache, exim didn't close the filehandle
from apache and so the socket was still open? This could explain the
blocking telnet process.

Nico