From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 13 08:25:13 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23E5116A4D3 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 08:25:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE36443FCB for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 08:25:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 16:23:13 +0000 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 1AKKCx-0006iR-00; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 16:20:35 +0000 Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 16:20:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: Ceri Davies In-Reply-To: <20031113140414.GQ60410@submonkey.net> Message-ID: References: <20031113135031.GA890@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org> <20031113140414.GQ60410@submonkey.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: Jan Grant cc: William O'Higgins cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: exim not running after portupgrade? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 16:25:13 -0000 On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Ceri Davies wrote: > 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 :-) > > > > 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 > > # 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="YES" in /etc/rc.conf was introduced. Yes, exactly. The exim port is now compatible with -current's rcng; if you look at /usr/local/etc/rc.d/exim.sh you'll probably see it's checking for that flag. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ printf 'cat\nhello world' | `sh -c 'read c; echo $c'`