This one time, at band camp, Kenward Vaughan said: > My other letter doesn't seem to have made it through to the list, so I'm > posting a different version... > > I did a recent reboot into my Sid box after the kids played a few Windoze > games, and found a few bizarre behaviors. > > I cannot fetch mail from my server. Typical message: > > --- > daddy:~# fetchmail > 9 messages for daddy at 192.168.0.1 (28311 octets). > reading message daddy@192.168.0.1:1 of 9 (2946 octets) .fetchmail: SMTP > connect > to localhost failed > fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from 192.168.0.1 > fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP) Exim is either not running, or something is refusing the connection (tcpwrappers ?) > --- > daddy:~# telnet localhost 25 > Trying 127.0.0.1... > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused tcpwrappers it is, it looks like. /etc/inetd.conf should have the line (uncommented) smtp stream tcp nowait mail /usr/sbin/exim exim -bs /etc/hosts should have the lines (make sure IP is correct): 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.0.x daddy And /etc/hosts.deny: ALL:PARANOID was the default before, but it will cause tcpwrappers to deny connections for everything - perhaps this is what's breaking it? try commenting it, or adding a localhost line to /etc/hosts.allow > daddy:~# telnet localhost > telnet: could not resolve localhost/telnet: Servname not supported for > ai_socktype Something wrong with /etc/hosts, perhaps? > Last, but quite annoying, I get log messages about cron(pam_unix) going > every 15 minutes. I didn't realize this was a normal job, but now knoww it > for sure with the messages and the persistent --MARK-- messages. exim has a cron job that runs every 15 minutes, so if tcpwrappers is messing things up, that might explain it. > Does anyone have ideas on what is wrong with this setup? I keep up to date > in Sid... is a package screwed up (pam?) somewhere which would cause this > mess? Hopefully that'll point you in the right direction -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | BOFH excuse #353: Second-system | | steve@lobefin.net | effect. | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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