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Exim will not restart

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  1. MarkB

    MarkB Well-Known Member

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    Getting the following error when trying to start exim via SSH (trying via cpanel simply produces a page full of error messages that looks like the recent error log entries...):

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    Starting exim:                                             [  OK  ]
Starting antirelayd:                                       [  OK  ]
Starting spamd: Could not create INET socket: Cannot assign requested address
IO::Socket::INET: Cannot assign requested address         [FAILED]
    Any ideas? :(
     
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    MarkB Well-Known Member

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    And cppop isn't restarting either :confused:

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    cppop startup succeeded cppop has failed, please contact the sysadmin
     
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    A couple of lines from /var/log/exim_paniclog should this help?

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    2003-04-12 22:06:44 socket bind() to port 25 for address (any IPv4) failed: Address already in use: daemon abandoned
2003-04-13 02:32:16 failed to expand condition"${perl{checkspam}}" for lookuphost router: Undefined subroutine &main::checkspam called.
     
    #3 MarkB, Apr 13, 2003
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    Run:

    netstat -anp | grep 25

    See what is binding port 25. If it's not exim, do a kill -9 on the PID and try starting exim.
     
    #4 FWC, Apr 13, 2003
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    Code:
    tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:25              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      10263/exim
    Is that right?:(
     
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    Yes, that looks normal. Maybe try:

    killall -9 exim
    /etc/rc.d/init.d/exim restart

    Probably won't work, but it can't hurt.
     
    #6 FWC, Apr 13, 2003
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    No, still giving me the spamd failed message :(

    Gah!

    But I appreciate your help :)
     
    #7 MarkB, Apr 13, 2003
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    Since nothing is working I guess you could try downgrading/upgrading Exim. That's helped some people with problems. If you haven't done that yet:

    /scripts/newexim
    /scripts/upcp
     
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    Thanks, I'll try that... :)
     
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    Ok, running the newexim script, but it's sitting on the line:

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    checking for suffix of object files...
    And has been for a few minutes now. Is this normal behaviour?
     
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    No, that's not. :confused:

    You might want to submit a support ticket at this point.
     
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    Yeah, I did yesterday - but I guess support doesn't work on weekends, and I need this working asap...

    DOH! :)

    Thanks anyway - very much appreciated!
     
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    If anyone else has any ideas, I'd be interested in hearing them...
     
    #13 MarkB, Apr 14, 2003
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    Did you end up solving this? I have the same problem on one server.
     
    #14 KingmanMe, Apr 14, 2003
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    My host got POP working, but exim is still not processing emails to local domains (they just sit in queue). I ended up with over 15,000 emails in queue which I deleted (3 days worth of database errors - another issue altogether;)). Now to just get mail flowing through the pipe!
     
    #15 MarkB, Apr 15, 2003
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    Are the local domains listed in /etc/localdomains? They won't deliver if they aren't.
     
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    Yes, they are...
     
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    Ok, I decided to try

    /scripts/newexim
    /scripts/upcp

    one more time.

    While running newexim, I get the following spammed across the screen:

    2003-04-15 16:08:53 195VRo-0003jG-00 Error in message_filter file: failed to open "/etc/antivirus.exim": No such file or directory

    /etc/antivirus.exim is there, but it's empty... :confused: could this be our problem?
     
    #18 MarkB, Apr 15, 2003
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