Exim Dying

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Geffy

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Exim refuses to start on my server, I have tried rebooting but that still doesnt get it going.
I am not very used to exim, by choice I would use qmail, so I dont really know how to start it from the command line so that I can more easily see the errors it spits out (or if it spits out errors) when it is started that could clue me into why it refuses or is unable to run

Thank you,
Geffy
 
Try /sbin/service exim restart

Here are where exim logs:

/var/log/exim/mainlog
/var/log/exim/paniclog
/var/log/exim/rejectlog


Regards,
Ben
 
I dont have /sbin/service and "whereis service" doesnt turn anything up either

this is a FreeBSD 4.x server if that helps
 
Sorry I should have asked you about the OS you're running.

How about this on FreeBSD:

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/exim restart

Can you do a search on log to locate where Exim log files are.

Regards,
Ben
 
found that, didnt know it would put the startup files in the right place for FreeBSD

still when I run
Code: 
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/exim start
Starting exim:          [ OK ]
# ps aux | grep exim

it claims to start, but obviously doesnt keep running.

I have checked the conf file using
exim -C /etc/exim.conf -bV
and that said all was fine. Also looked at the mainlog, paniclog and rejectlog and none of them are shining any light on the situation either
 
Geffy said:
found that, didnt know it would put the startup files in the right place for FreeBSD

still when I run
Code: 
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/exim start
Starting exim:          [ OK ]
# ps aux | grep exim

it claims to start, but obviously doesnt keep running.

I have checked the conf file using
exim -C /etc/exim.conf -bV
and that said all was fine. Also looked at the mainlog, paniclog and rejectlog and none of them are shining any light on the situation either
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What do the logs output ?

Maybe it shines some light for us ;) (Did you modify anything ???)
 
sorry, got this sorted out, I had forgotten to check the permissions on the log files after I had moved them to a different location

*smacks head on desk
 
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