Re: Exim panics

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 02 May 2012 10:17:59 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote:

> On my Squeeze box, I am getting occasional panics from Exim, due to port
> 25 being in use. I imagine it's occasionally clashing with Thunderbird:

With Thunderbird? :-?

> exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog on tony-lx.magpieway.net has non-
> zero size, mail system might be broken. The last 10 lines are quoted
> below.
> 
> 2012-04-15 22:01:07 socket bind() to port 25 for address ::1 failed:
> Cannot assign requested address: daemon abandoned

(...)

> What would be the preferred way of overcoming this problem?

I guess you could configure Exim ("dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config") so 
that listens only at the desired interfaces (i.e., only to localhost ipv4 
-127.0.0.1- instead adding localhost ipv6 -::1- addresses). 

Anyway, Exim shouldn't complain if your nic is configured to handle ipv6 
requests (which is the default since years but "/sbin/ifconfig lo" will 
confirm).

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón