* Charles Baker (rascharles@yahoo.com) [020803 22:03]:
> I can't seem to get the relationship between exim and
> xinetd straight in my head. While I go do a little
> more reading on exim and xinetd can someone give me
> some pointers? Would it be better for exim to just run
> in daemon mode?
>
> I see this in /etc/init.d/exim :
>
> # Exit if exim runs from /etc/inetd.conf
> if [ -f /etc/inetd.conf ] && grep -q "^ *smtp"
> /etc/inetd.conf; then
> exit 0
> fi
This little hack is used to determine if exim is to be started from
inetd, in which case the initscript just exits. If you're running from
xinetd, just add an "exit 0" to the top of the initscript, even before
this little inetd.conf test. Also, for style points, make it look
something like this:
# <<Added by charles Sat Aug 3 23:26:59 PDT 2002
exit 0
# >>
So you can tell what you changed and when
>
> And even though I've got xinetd installed
> /etc/inetd.conf does exists and contains a line
> beginning w/ smtp. xinetd is running, and the exim
> config in /etc/xinetd.conf is this :
>
> service smtp
> {
> socket_type = stream
> protocol = tcp
> wait = no
> user = mail
> server = /usr/sbin/exim
> server_args = -bs
> }
>
> A further complication could be my firewall, however,
> I ran the port probe at grc.com and it shows that smtp
> is open. A check of the firewall rules shows port 25
> being forwarded appropriately. I can send mail locally
> from my user account to root and the mail ends up back
> in my user account as it should. I can send mail from
> root to my local user account. but nothing is coming
> in from outside.
Run 'netstat -lp' to see if something is listening, and what it is.
Hopefully you'll see that xinetd is listening on tcp/25.
First confirm or deny that, and then we'll get to a more complete
diagnosis of the problem.
good times,
Vineet
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