exim can not start

[crea]

hi
i restart exim service manager but it not start
i got an error when i connect ssh

/usr/sbin/sendmail: No such file or directory

how can i fix it

[smtalk]

Try:


# cd /usr/sbin
# ln -s exim sendmail
# service exim restart

If it doesn't help:
# wget http://files.directadmin.com/services/da_exim-4.66-1.src.rpm
# rpmbuild --rebuild da_exim-4.66-1.src.rpm
# rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/da_exim-4.66-1.i386.rpm
# /sbin/service exim restart

[crea]

i try them

1.
ln: creating symbolic link `sendmail' to `exim': File exists
[root@server sbin]# service exim restart
Shutting down exim:
Starting exim: /etc/init.d/exim: line 30: /usr/sbin/exim: No such file or directory


2.
tls-openssl.c:346: error: wrong type argument to unary exclamation mark
make[1]: *** [tls.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/da_exim-4.66/build-Linux-i386'
make: *** [go] Error 2
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.15105 (%build)


RPM build errors:
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.15105 (%build)

[smtalk]

In this case you should compile exim from the source. Follow these steps:
wget ftp://mirror.hostfuss.com/exim/ftp/exim/exim4/exim-4.66.tar.gz
tar xvzf exim-4.66.tar.gz
cd exim-4.66/Local
wget http://www.directadmin.com/Makefile
perl -pi -e 's/^EXTRALIBS/#EXTRALIBS/' Makefile
cd ..
make
make install
mv -f /usr/sbin/exim-4.66-1 /usr/sbin/exim
chmod 4755 /usr/sbin/exim

[crea]

:S
In file included from tls.c:86:
tls-openssl.c: In function âtls_initâ:
tls-openssl.c:346: error: wrong type argument to unary exclamation mark
make[1]: *** [tls.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/exim-4.66/build-Linux-athlon'
make: *** [go] Error 2

[smtalk]

I guess you're using openSSL 0.9.8e. The one way to solve this problem is to downgrade openSSL to 0.9.8d.

The other (better) way to do this is :
# wget -O exim-4.66-openssl.patch http://www.exim.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=78&action=view
# patch -p0 < exim-4.66-openssl.patch

Do this after "tar xzvf exim-4.66.tar.gz". And after this follow the other steps. Good luck.

[jlasman]

Note that using exim source downloaded from anywhere besides the official DA repository could give you a version of exim that won't run properly with DA. Be sure especially to use the DA SpamBlocker exim.conf file and the latest DA exim.pl file to be able to deliver mail the way DA expects it.

Jeff