Re: [Exim] Cannot start Exim

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Author: Bill Hacker
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Cannot start Exim
Sorry - didn't realize the list was mis-configured ,and replied to the
poster vs the list:


Ron McKeating wrote:

> Are you doing it as root ?


ACK. as it would be invoked on machine startup.. (well 'toor' actually..)

Bill

> On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 21:35, Bill Hacker wrote:
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>>FreeBSD 4.9 RELEASE on Intel PIII 1GHZ 1 GB RAM, 2 X 60 MB as ID RAID1
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>>Exim 4.24_2 from the FreeBSD ports tree.
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>>Bog-standard install, only flag as to build for (eventual) use with
>>PostgreSQL (which is already on the box).
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>>Sendmail had been de-installed and its files nuked prior to Exim
>>installation.
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>>Have created /etc/mail/mailer.cf, and /etc/periodic.conf with
>>recommended entries.
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>>*BUT* - attempting to execute "/etc/rc.d/exim.sh start" returns:
>>=========================================
>>P?
>>   .
>>    ??..: not found
>>set_rcvar: not found
>>load_rc_config: not found
>>run_rc_command: not found
>>==========================================

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>>- and fails to start Exim... (no lie! <G>)
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>>Unable to find anything on any of this in an archive search, see nothing
>>like it in past 2 months 'eyeball' scan of the archives...
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>>Where should I look first/
>>
>>TIA,
>>
>>Bill Hacker
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