On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 03:27:32PM +0200, Gregory Machin wrote: > > please could someone HELP ive installed debian 3 wood and it installed > exim 3 by default ... > i can't use the dafault exim cause it's not complied to my requirements. > > where does debian launch exim from cause when i telnet in exim is running > but not visable under ps -ef ??
It's being run by the inetd superserver. Take a look at /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/init.d/exim. The init.d script stops and doesn't load exim if it finds a line starting "smtp" in the inetd.conf file. Look at "man inetd.conf". HTH, jc