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Re: Debain installed exim BIG TROUBLE



On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 03:27:32PM +0200, Gregory Machin wrote:
> 
> please could someone HELP ive installed debian 3 wood and it installed
> exim 3 by default ...
> i can't use the dafault exim cause it's not complied to my requirements.
> 
> where does debian launch exim from cause when i telnet in exim is running
> but not visable under ps -ef ??

It's being run by the inetd superserver.  Take a look at /etc/inetd.conf 
and /etc/init.d/exim.  The init.d script stops and doesn't load exim if 
it finds a line starting "smtp" in the inetd.conf file.

Look at "man inetd.conf".

HTH,
  jc



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