Re: Exim panics

[Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org>]

On 02/05/12 17:40, Camaleón wrote:
> 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).
Thanks, everybody, for your answers. Especially this one, which tells me 
what to do, and how to do it :)

So, I've done that, watch this space to see whether the problem recurs.

Oh, yes, I've had Jochen's script running all day, no culprits, except 
exim itself, but I guess I'd expect that, as the log entries are days apart.

> 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).

Nope:
tony@tony-lx:~$ sudo ifconfig lo
[sudo] password for tony:
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:116280 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:116280 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:21992844 (20.9 MiB)  TX bytes:21992844 (20.9 MiB)



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