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I have Mandrake 9 and am having problem loading exim 4.14 to listen on the
smtp port.
I compiled and installed exim 4.14 from source tarball.
It seems that the Mandrake default is to let Postfix's master listen on the
smtp port.
I killed that process and restared xinetd with the following xinetd.conf:
(hoping to load exim at the smtp port)
defaults
{
instances = 60
log_type = SYSLOG authpriv
log_on_success = HOST PID
log_on_failure = HOST
cps = 25 30
}
service smtp
{
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
wait = no
user = mail
server = /usr/exim/bin/exim
server_args = -bs
}
includedir /etc/xinetd.d
But after I restarted xinetd with "service xinetd restart", the process
running on smtp becomes xinetd rather
than exim:
netstat -tlp |grep smtp
tcp 0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN
17996/xinetd
Also I thought the "*:smtp" part should read something like "localhost:smtp
*:*" instead.
Since I installed exim 4.14 from source tarball, someone told me that I have
to set the right permissions of
some components of exim, although I have no idea what permission I should
set.
Could anyone give me any hind of what went wrong here?
many thanks,
Wei
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