Re: [exim] socket bind() errors, bad exim.conf possibly

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Author: Andrew Osborn
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] socket bind() errors, bad exim.conf possibly
I don't run it as a daemon when it's in inetd. Ive tried both, with
the other disabled, as a test.
In inetd I have
smtp            stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/exim in.exim -bs


and when that doesn't work I try it as a daemon and do:

/usr/sbin/exim -bd -q15m at the bash line.
Which makes it run as a daemon.

I do not do both. I don't care which I use, as long as one works.

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 12:41:56 +0000, Tony Finch <dot@???> wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Andrew Osborn wrote:
>
> > The only SMTP I have in /etc/inetd.conf is
> > smtp            stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/exim in.exim -bs

>
> Yes, you are suffering from the weird non-standard way that Debian runs
> its SMTP listener. You don't need to run an Exim listening daemon (-bd)
> if Exim is being run by inetd.
>
> Tony.
> --
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> N\}{([^N]*)(.)(.)(.*)}{\$1\$3\$2\$1\$3\n\$2\$3\$4\$3\n\$3\$2\$4}}\
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>



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