freebsd 5.2.1 and exim 4.30 problems

[Andrew Thomson]

On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 14:38, Andrew Thomson wrote:
> I have a bit of strange problem and I'm nearly at my witts end as to
> what the cause of the problem is.
> 
> Basically I installed a 5.2-RELEASE box and setup my new mailserver.
> Then used portupgrade to upgrade any newer versions of software
> installed.
> 
> I then cvsup'ed to 5.2.1-p4 and now things aren't working too well.
> 
> mx2# telnet 0 25
> Trying 0.0.0.0...
> Connected to 0.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 mx2 ESMTP Exim 4.30 Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:27:14 +1000
> 421 mx2 lost input connection
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> 
> I always get this "connection closed" business before I can send any
> commands through!
> 
> The problem is that everything works on my desktop, which is a
> 5.2.1-p4/exim 4.30 combo - thus proving everything should work fine.
> 
> The only real differences I guess are in the hardware. The new
> mailserver is an SMP box whilst my box is just a standard desktop.
> 
> I've tried the following to no avail:
> 
> * portupgrade -Rf exim
> * make kernel (use GENERIC)
> * make kernel (use GENERIC but no smp)
> * build/installworld then portupgrade -Rf exim
> 
> Everything was working fine but now it's pooched! I'm not sure what to
> try next as I had this box all setup ready to be dropped into production
> and then this issue arose!
> 
> Every other part of the box works fine - ssh, courier-imap, ldap etc
> etc.. But not being able to receive mail is quite a fundamental problem!
> 
> Any thoughts on what to try next would be appreciated. System rebuild
> isn't high on the agenda!! ;)
> 
Something else I've noted.

On my desktop where it works:

1011# ps auxwww | grep exim
mailnull 99630  0.0  0.8  5284 2144  ??  Ss    3:21PM   0:00.00
/usr/local/sbin/exim -bd -q30m (exim-4.30-2)

And on the new mailserver:

mx2# ps auxwww | grep exim
mailnull   766  0.0  0.2  5844 3180  ??  Ss    3:26PM   0:00.00
/usr/local/sbin/exim -bd -q30m (exim-4.30-2)
root       767  0.0  0.1  5836 3124  ??  S     3:26PM   0:00.02
/usr/local/sbin/exim -q (exim-4.30-2)
root       768  0.0  0.2  5896 3216  ??  S     3:26PM   0:00.00
/usr/local/sbin/exim -q (exim-4.30-2)
mailnull     0  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  ZW   -         0:00.00 
(exim-4.30-2)

This is after and /etc/rc.d/exim start.

No exim processes were running before the exim start.

Interesting?

ajt.