Re: inetd not being run at startup
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 at 15:44 GMT, Ric Otte penned:
> I recently lost my hard drive, and after restoring, fetchmail does not
> work. I get the smtp failed for localhost message, and discovered
> that exim is not running (I can't telnet to localhost 25). Things
> work fine if I start exim manually (/usr/sbin/exim -bd), or if I do
> "/etc/init.d/inetd restart" or if I do "/usr/sbin/inetd". So it looks
> to me as if inetd is not being run at startup. The relevant line in
> my /etc/inetd.conf is: smtp stream tcp nowait mail
> /usr/sbin/exim exim -bs Does anyone have any idea why inetd would not
> be run at startup? Thanks very much,
>
> Ric
>
>
Looks like your links to /etc/init.d/inetd from rc?.d are borked. Do
you have any files that look like
S20inetd
in any of your /etc/rc?.d directories? (The number may be different)
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