Fedora 13 & Exim MTA

[Jeffrey Ross]

> Trying to get Exim running on an F13 system, everything is configured
> except I need to add one additional non standard port for EXIM to listen
> on (TCP port 554) due to some ISP filters in the way.
>
> Problem is when I add 554 to the list of ports for Exim it won't start up
> and I get the following in the log file -
>
> 2010-11-01 16:03:13 socket bind() to port 554 for address (any IPv4)
> failed: Permission denied: waiting 30s before trying again (2 more tries)
> 2010-11-01 16:03:43 socket bind() to port 554 for address (any IPv4)
> failed: Permission denied: waiting 30s before trying again (1 more try)
> 2010-11-01 16:04:13 socket bind() to port 554 for address (any IPv4)
> failed: Permission denied: daemon abandoned
>
>
> according to "netstat -an" nothing is listening on 554.  I suspect its
> something simple, just don't know where to make the change.
>
> Thanks, Jeff
>
after some digging around I think I found it, the problem is SELinux, in
the process of modifying the rules now.

Jeff