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Date:      Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:04:14 +0000
From:      Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>
To:        William O'Higgins <william.ohiggins@utoronto.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: exim not running after portupgrade?
Message-ID:  <20031113140414.GQ60410@submonkey.net>
In-Reply-To: <20031113135031.GA890@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org>
References:  <20031113135031.GA890@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org>

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On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 08:50:31AM -0500, William O'Higgins wrote:
> I recently ran portupgrade to get to a state that approximates current,
> and when I rebooted exim is not running.  It used to, just fine, but now
> when I boot I've got no MTA.  I can tell you, fetchmail thinks this is
> quite the problem :-)
>=20
> What could have caused this?  As far as I can tell it was being started
> *somehow* before, and now it isn't.  It works fine if I just remember to=
=20
> # sudo exim -bd -q5m
> but I think it shouldn't have stopped starting just because of a
> portupgrade.  I went from exim 4.12 to 4.24, but there are no changes in
> the configuration needed for that update.

I'm pretty sure that sometime during that gap a requirement for
exim_enable=3D"YES" in /etc/rc.conf was introduced.

Ceri
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