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Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 00:05:09 -0500
To: "John Kim" <jkim AT sciences DOT sdsu DOT edu>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre DOT Humblet AT ieee DOT org>
Subject: Re: Exim says TCP port "smtp" not found
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At 06:03 PM 3/4/2005 -0800, John Kim wrote:
>I just downloaded & installed Cygwin w/ Exim on a Windows 2000 box and...
>  - ran exim-conf successfully
>  - chmod-ed all the log files & directories to SYSTEM:root
>  - created the /var/mail and /var/spool/mail directories.

These last two steps are OK but not necessary.

>When I try to start exim service ("net start exim" from Cygwin bash shell) 
>it says that it cannot be started. When I look in the log files, it says (in 
>cygrunsrv_err.log):
>  TCP port "smtp" not found.
>
>I looked in /etc/services and SMTP at port 25 is there (I hadn't touched the 
>file to begin with).
>
>What should I do?

This is a sign of trouble with winsock, getservbyname() is one
of the initial network calls.
There must be something special with your environment...
Do you perhaps have a user called "exim" in /etc/passwd ?
If so, remove it.
Also, do you run exim under the system account?

There was a very long thread about that problem two years ago, ending with
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-02/msg02099.html
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-02/msg02189.html
If you don't have an "exim" user, we are in for some similar debugging :(

Pierre




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