Fedora 13 & Exim MTA

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Mon Nov 1 21:09:30 UTC 2010


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On 11/01/2010 04:46 PM, Athmane Madjoudj wrote:
> On 11/01/2010 09:25 PM, Jeffrey Ross wrote:
>> 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
>>
> 
> Sounds like Selinux is blocking the port, can you disable it temporary 
> to see if it works:
> 
> # echo 0 > /selinux/enforce
> 
> # Retest again
> 
> # echo 1 > /selinux/enforce
> 
> HTH
> 
Something like

# semanage port -a -t smtp_port_t -p tcp 554


Will probably fix this.

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