Hi! I receive my mail via uucp and send it to am internal machine via smtp; that means that each time I poll, there are many (30-200) brief smtp connections to my mail spool.
I noticed today that some incoming messages were queued on my uucp host, and saw the following in /var/log/syslog on my mail server: inetd[164]: smtp/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated although there was no sign of trouble in /var/log/exim/*. I'm guessing that exim was forking to perform the local delivery and was returning so quickly that inetd assumed something was broken. For the moment I'm running exim as a stand-alone daemon rather than from inetd, but I'd like to be able to use inetd because it allows me to use TCP wrappers. I also want exim to return quickly rather than delivering in the foreground. How can I get inetd to work nicely with exim? John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything." - Bill Gates in Denmark
