Re: problems with fetchmail eand exim

[Robert Waldner <Waldner@KPNQwest.at>]

On Mon, 22 May 2000 21:47:13 +0200, MH writes:
>" lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>" 	  LOOPBACK  MTU:3924  Metric:1
>"        RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>"        packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>" 	collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>
>It seems that your loopback isn't running there should be a
>
>*UP LOOPBACK RUNNING* MTU:3924 ... in ifconfig lo

ahemm, and it should have the proper ip-address (127.0.0.1/8).

>Have a look at /etc/network/interfaces or /etc/init.d/network ...

where you should find:

bash-2.03# egrep lo /etc/init.d/network                              
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 lo

I don´t think that it´s actually required to explicitly add the route,
but then, I´m more familiar with cisco routers than with linux ;-)

&rw
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