Re: [exim] exim4 is blocking port 80

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Author: Phil Pennock
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To: Jonathan Briggs
CC: exim-users, Graeme Fowler
Subject: Re: [exim] exim4 is blocking port 80
On 2008-01-02 at 23:00 +0000, Jonathan Briggs wrote:
> If it is a problem with inheriting file descriptors, it'd be easy to fix
> in Exim by closing all descriptors from 0 to NR_OPEN during program
> start.
>
> This could be what other mail programs are doing and why you do not see
> problems from them.


Presumably you meant 3, not 0?

Closing the file-descriptor used for piping the mail content into the
MSA is perhaps of limited utility.

#include <grumbles/unix/closing_all_but_N_fds.txt>

-Phil