Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 16:20:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: exim not running after portupgrade? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0311131618310.17925@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20031113140414.GQ60410@submonkey.net> References: <20031113135031.GA890@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org> <20031113140414.GQ60410@submonkey.net>
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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'`
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