Re: Exim4 e IPv6 Question

[Antony Gelberg <antony@wayforth.co.uk>]

Marco wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have installed exim4-daemon-heavy on my linux box (Debian Sarge). I 
> have compiled
> my kernel without ipv6 support. (it does not interest to me).
> Now when I start exim this messages appear on my log.
>
> 2005-08-10 00:00:00 IPv6 socket creation failed: Address family not 
> supported by protocol.
> 2005-08-10 00:00:00 Failed to create IPv6 socket for wildcard listening 
> (Address family not supported by protocol): will use IPv4.
> 2005-08-10 00:00:00 exim 4.50 daemon started: pid=10000, -q30m, 
> listening for SMTP on port 25 (IPv4).
>
> How to do to start exim4 only with IPv4 support?

Don't worry about the message.  It's just telling you that it couldn't 
create an IPv6 socket, which is what you should expect.