freebsd 5.2.1 and exim 4.30 problems

Joshua Lokken joshua at twobirds.us
Wed Mar 31 11:07:37 PST 2004


* Andrew Thomson <andrewjt at applecomm.net> [2004-03-31 07:40]:
> On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 15:59, Andrew Thomson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 15:24, Andrew Thomson wrote:
> > > 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.


Right there is where I made my mistake, too.  If I would've reversed
those last two steps (upgrade the sources, then the ports) I couldv'e
avoided an afternoon of panic.  In short, I portupgraded Exim and the
problems went away.  You may try that.


-- 
Joshua

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		-- Kirk, "Catspaw", stardate 3018.2


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