Exim not listening

[Jason Cormie]

Debian
Mailscanner 3.26
Exim3.35


Have just moved my test box to production and have been having problems with
the server not listening on SMTP.
In my daemon.log I have

Dec 17 07:35:57 uadspa01 inetd[173]: smtp/tcp server failing (looping),
service terminated
Dec 17 07:46:50 uadspa01 inetd[173]: smtp/tcp server failing (looping),
service terminated
Dec 17 07:57:35 uadspa01 inetd[173]: smtp/tcp server failing (looping),
service terminated
Dec 17 08:08:16 uadspa01 inetd[173]: smtp/tcp server failing (looping),
service terminated
Dec 17 08:19:00 uadspa01 inetd[173]: smtp/tcp server failing (looping),
service terminated
Dec 17 08:29:38 uadspa01 inetd[173]: smtp/tcp server failing (looping),
service terminated
Dec 17 08:40:34 uadspa01 inetd[173]: smtp/tcp server failing (looping),
service terminated
Dec 17 08:51:30 uadspa01 inetd[173]: smtp/tcp server failing (looping),
service terminated
Dec 17 09:03:30 uadspa01 inetd[173]: smtp/tcp server failing (looping),
service terminated
Dec 17 09:14:03 uadspa01 inetd[173]: smtp/tcp server failing (looping),
service terminated

I have changed the number of connections exim is allowed in inetd.conf from
default(40) to 500
and this seems to have fixed the problem

smtp            stream  tcp     nowait.500      mail    /usr/sbin/exim exim
-bs

Can this be put in the documentation for other poor fools like me?



Jason D Cormie
Information Specialist
Network & Communications Team
Information Services
University of Abertay Dundee

ccojdc at abertay.ac.uk
01382 308826