> Im still working on getting exim working here. I try to telnet
> localhost 25 and I get connection refused. I tried grep smtp
> /etc/inetd.conf and get smtp stream tcp nowait mail /usr/sbin/exim
> exim -bs
>
> what would keep telnet from conecting?
You can get this behaviour if the loopback device is not configured. I
once accidentally clobbered lo when I changed the network configuration
(to use DHCP) and this was exactly what happened. What do you get if
you do ifconfig?
There should be something like this:
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1
RX packets:12301 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12301 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
Collisions:0
Jim
