Re: SMTP connection went away?
On Tue, May 19, 1998 at 09:36:33PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote:
> > Have you changed hostnames or anything? Is smail running out of inetd or
> Not lately.
>
> > as a daemon?
> from inetd.
>
> > Can you telnet to localhost 25 and see the smail
> > announcement?
> I get "connection refused"
>
> > Is your hosts.allow set up correctly?
> It's empty -- but I haven't changed it. All the sudden yesterday when up
> upgraded some packages my smail port became unavailable. Would a new
> package have bungled that up without asking?
It certainly would. This happened here too, with 3.2.0.101-4.
This infuriating situation seems to happen every time there is an smail
upgrade. The service is switched off as #<off># in /etc/inetd.conf,
the postinst tries to start it in daemon mode but has not restarted
inetd so inetd still has the port bound. It doesn't ask if you wanted
to switch to daemon mode first though. Then there's no documentation
on the anti-spam provided either. As soon as I get a chance I might
upgrade my production system to exim.
Hamish
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