Bug#299051: exim4+libnss-ldap: Loops infinitely on startup

[Marc Haber]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 03:42:05PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> My best guess so far is that Exim closes all descriptors after
> becoming a daemon, including the ones opened by libnss-ldap.

exim by default only closes fds 0, 1 and 2, which kills the
Debian-Installer (see #297607). So we have patched exim to close all
fds on startup (debian/patches/10_daemon_close_fds.dpatch) for ages.

Greetings
Marc

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