My other letter doesn't seem to have made it through to the list, so I'm posting a different version...
I did a recent reboot into my Sid box after the kids played a few Windoze games, and found a few bizarre behaviors. I cannot fetch mail from my server. Typical message: --- daddy:~# fetchmail 9 messages for daddy at 192.168.0.1 (28311 octets). reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1 of 9 (2946 octets) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from 192.168.0.1 fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP) --- I've Googled this and noted that exim has always been up and working. Fetchmail has too. Things were working before I booted into Windoze then back into Linux. I cannot telnet in/out of the box either: --- daddy:~# telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused daddy:~# telnet localhost telnet: could not resolve localhost/telnet: Servname not supported for ai_socktype (same from the server) --- Last, but quite annoying, I get log messages about cron(pam_unix) going every 15 minutes. I didn't realize this was a normal job, but now knoww it for sure with the messages and the persistent --MARK-- messages. I'm getting very lost in all the information I've read about portmap, inetd, and whatever conf files I've been able to pick up in between (eg. hosts* in /etc). I have no ipchains, etc. on this box as my server acts as the firewall. Does anyone have ideas on what is wrong with this setup? I keep up to date in Sid... is a package screwed up (pam?) somewhere which would cause this mess? Thanks, Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]