Frank Murphy schrieb: > Just noticed this on my F8 server maillog: > Nov 19 08:10:11 server-01 > sendmail[1889]: alias database /etc/aliases rebuilt by root >> Nov 19 08:10:11 server-01 sendmail[1889]: /etc/aliases: 76 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 765 bytes total >> Nov 19 08:10:11 server-01 sendmail[1894]: starting daemon (8.14.1): SMTP+queueing@01:00:00 >> Nov 19 08:10:12 server-01 sm-msp-queue[1905]: starting daemon (8.14.1): queueing@01:00:00 >> Nov 19 10:10:04 server-01 exim[10578]: 2008-11-19 10:10:04 1L2k0a-0002kc-Dm <= root@server-01 U=root P=local S=2053 >> Nov 19 10:10:04 server-01 exim[10578]: 2008-11-19 10:10:04 1L2k0a-0002kc-Dm Cannot open main log file "/var/log/exim/main.log": Permission denied: euid=93 egid=93 >> Nov 19 10:10:04 server-01 exim[10578]: exim: could not open panic log - aborting: see message(s) above >> Nov 19 10:10:04 server-01 exim[10558]: 2008-11-19 10:10:04 1L2k0a-0002kI-Dq <= root@server-01 U=root P=local S=398 >> Nov 19 10:10:04 server-01 exim[10558]: 2008-11-19 10:10:04 1L2k0a-0002kI-Dq Cannot open main log file "/var/log/exim/main.log": Permission denied: euid=93 egid=93 >> Nov 19 10:10:04 server-01 exim[10558]: exim: could not open panic log - aborting: see message(s) above >> Nov 19 10:10:12 server-01 exim[10623]: 2008-11-19 10:10:12 1L2k0i-0002lL-Md <= root@server-01 U=root P=local S=2303 >> Nov 19 10:10:12 server-01 exim[10623]: 2008-11-19 10:10:12 1L2k0i-0002lL-Md Cannot open main log file "/var/log/exim/main.log": Permission denied: euid=93 egid=93 >> Nov 19 10:10:12 server-01 exim[10623]: exim: could not open panic log - aborting: see message(s) above > > > No entries since then, how do I avoid this, and how to get it working again? > > Frank You run both Sendmail and Exim on your system. >From your log above you can see sendmail daemon and the msp started at 08:10. This means port 25 is occupied by Sendmail. Thus Exim is not able to bind to port 25 as well. Decide which MTA you intend to run and uninstall the one not required. Alexander -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines