Re: exim setup

[<mcclosk@cats.ucsc.edu>]

> Im still working on getting exim working here. I try to telnet
> localhost 25 and I get connection refused. I tried grep smtp
> /etc/inetd.conf and get smtp stream tcp nowait mail /usr/sbin/exim
> exim -bs
>
> what would keep telnet from conecting?

You can get this behaviour if the loopback device is not configured. I
once accidentally clobbered lo when I changed the network configuration
(to use DHCP) and this was exactly what happened. What do you get if
you do ifconfig?

There should be something like this:

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Bcast:127.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3584  Metric:1
          RX packets:12301 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:12301 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          Collisions:0 


Jim