On 7 Feb 2005 at 22:28, Andrew Osborn wrote about
"Re: [exim] SMTP forwards with EXIM":
| I removed smtp line from inetd.
Good.
| Added it to /etc/services.
Shouldn't do any harm, but why?
| Checked lsof | grep -i tcp, and after restarting inetd, smtp only
| showed up once, as exim.
So exim is running at this time.
|...
| Obviously I have a problem with port 25 being assigned to something
| else. I removed it everywhere but /etc/services so I dont understand
| that.
lsof showed it was assigned to exim, so it must be already running.
Sounds like you have exim started up as a daemon from somewhere you
are not expecting, so your attempt to start it again later fails.
- Fred