On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 17:24, nate wrote: > Mark L. Kahnt said: > > > Just tried each (well, not really the third, as I don't use nscd) and > > "localhost" can now be pinged, but exim and ftp are still not > > responding, meaning fetchmail is still being refused. Interestingly, I can > > dispatch a message to sendmail addressed to kahnt@localhost, and it gets > > through, which suggests to me that the sendmail for exim doesn't work > > through the smtp port, but just goes directly into the local > > delivery. > > have you restarted the services? worth a shot if you haven't .. > > the fastest way to restart everything would be to drop to runlevel 1 > then go back (hit init 1, then when prompted for the root password hit > CTRL-D). note this will kill and restart all processes on the system(except > a couple), so be sure you don't have anything important running, but sounds > like you don't at the moment. > > if theres only a couple networking services running it may help just > to do /etc/init.d/networking restart, and restart the various services > as well(networking restart probably isn't performed when changing runlevels > so you may want to do this too just for kicks) > > > nate > I have restarted /etc/init.d/networking and /etc/init.d/xinetd, as well as reloading /etc/init.d/bind, but I haven't gone to the point of the switch of runlevels, partly because *something* rewrites my /etc/resolv.conf, and I suspect that is the ppp startup - I'm wary to start poking there too much for fear of making things twice as bad. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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