Re: Exim doesn't start (woody)

[Shyamal Prasad <shyamal.prasad@sbcglobal.net>]

    "Rob" == Rob French <fulcrum99lists@earthlink.net> writes:

    Rob> Here's potentially the problem.  I checked in inetd.conf and
    Rob> there is no entry for 'mail', 'smtp', 'exim', or the like. I
    Rob> tried 'dpkg-reconfigure netkit-inetd' and that didn't solve
    Rob> the problem. One note, I am using exim-tls rather than exim,
    Rob> is that possibly somehow an issue? (Again, it works fine when
    Rob> I use '/etc/init.d/exim start', but yes I would rather have
    Rob> it through inetd if that's default).

Do you have /etc/rc2.d/S20exim then? (or rc?.d, whatever your run
level is). 

I do not use exim-tls so I'm not sure I can help. Please see my
previous post for the exact line you need to put into inetd.conf to
start exim on incoming connections.


Good luck!
Shyamal