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| 2 | <title>Configuring exim</title>
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| 3 |
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| 4 | <sect3><title>Config files</title>
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| 5 | <para><userinput>/etc/exim.conf, /etc/aliases</userinput></para>
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| 6 | </sect3>
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| 7 |
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| 8 | <sect3><title>Configuration of exim</title>
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| 9 | <para>Create the exim configuration files with the following commands:
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| 10 | </para>
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| 11 | <para><screen><userinput>
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| 12 | cat >> /etc/aliases << "EOF"
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| 13 | postmaster: root
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| 14 | MAILER-DAEMON: root
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| 15 | EOF
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| 16 | exim -v -bi
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| 17 | /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q1m
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| 18 | </userinput></screen></para>
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| 19 | <note><para>To protect an existing <filename>/etc/aliases</filename>
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| 20 | file, we will append these aliases to it if it exists. This file
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| 21 | should be checked and duplicate aliases removed, if
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| 22 | present.</para></note>
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| 23 |
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <para>To start and stop exim on system boot/shutdown create the
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| 26 | exim boot script with the following commands: </para>
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| 27 |
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| 28 | <para><screen><userinput>cat > /etc/rc.d/init.d/exim << "EOF"</userinput>
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| 29 | #!/bin/sh
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| 30 | # Begin $rc_base/init.d/exim
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| 31 |
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| 32 | # Based on sysklogd script from LFS-3.1 and earlier.
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| 33 | # Rewritten by Gerard Beekmans - gerard@linuxfromscratch.org
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| 34 |
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| 35 | source /etc/sysconfig/rc
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| 36 | source $rc_functions
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| 37 |
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| 38 | case "$1" in
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| 39 |
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| 40 | start)
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| 41 | echo "Starting exim..."
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| 42 | loadproc /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q1m
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| 43 | ;;
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| 44 |
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| 45 | stop)
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| 46 | echo "Stopping exim..."
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| 47 | killproc exim
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| 48 | ;;
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| 49 |
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| 50 | status)
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| 51 | statusproc exim
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| 52 | ;;
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| 53 |
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| 54 | restart)
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| 55 | $0 stop
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| 56 | sleep 1
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| 57 | $0 start
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| 58 | ;;
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| 59 |
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| 60 | *)
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| 61 | echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart}"
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| 62 | exit 1
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| 63 | ;;
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| 64 | esac
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| 65 |
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| 66 | # End $rc_base/init.d/exim
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| 67 | <userinput>EOF
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| 68 | chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/init.d/exim</userinput></screen></para>
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| 69 |
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| 70 | <para>Create the run level symlinks with the following commands:
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| 71 | </para>
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| 72 | <para>
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| 73 | <screen><userinput>cd /etc/rc.d/init.d &&
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| 74 | ln -sf ../init.d/exim ../rc0.d/K25exim &&
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| 75 | ln -sf ../init.d/exim ../rc1.d/K25exim &&
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| 76 | ln -sf ../init.d/exim ../rc2.d/K25exim &&
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| 77 | ln -sf ../init.d/exim ../rc3.d/S35exim &&
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| 78 | ln -sf ../init.d/exim ../rc4.d/S35exim &&
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| 79 | ln -sf ../init.d/exim ../rc5.d/S35exim &&
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| 80 | ln -sf ../init.d/exim ../rc6.d/K25exim</userinput></screen></para>
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| 81 | </sect3>
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| 82 |
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| 83 | </sect2>
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