Bug#477194: exim4: Starting MTA:exim: incompatible command-line options or arguments

[Leandro Lucarella]

Package: exim4
Version: 4.69-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


I get the error:
Starting MTA:exim: incompatible command-line options or arguments

when starting exim4 via the /etc/init.d script. The problem seems to be
empty command line arguments. In /etc/init.d/exim4, if I remove line 96
(and the trailing '\' from line 95), it works just fine.

-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.69 #1 built 12-Apr-2008 09:55:16
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2006
Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 4.6.21: (September 27, 2007)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS move_frozen_messages
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dnsdb dsearch nis nis0 passwd
Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Size of off_t: 8
Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
# /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
#
# Edit this file and /etc/mailname by hand and execute update-exim4.conf
# yourself or use 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'
#
# Please note that this is _not_ a dpkg-conffile and that automatic changes
# to this file might happen. The code handling this will honor your local
# changes, so this is usually fine, but will break local schemes that mess
# around with multiple versions of the file.
#
# update-exim4.conf uses this file to determine variable values to replace
# the DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF strings in the configuration template files.
#
# Most settings found in here do have corresponding questions in the
# Debconf configuration, but not all of them.
#
# This is a Debian specific file

dc_eximconfig_configtype='smarthost'
dc_other_hostnames='localhost.localdomain'
dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1'
dc_readhost=''
dc_relay_domains=''
dc_minimaldns='false'
dc_relay_nets=''
dc_smarthost='scm.integratech.net'
CFILEMODE='644'
dc_use_split_config='false'
dc_hide_mailname='false'
dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
dc_localdelivery='mail_spool'
mailname:azazel.integratech.net

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (75, 'testing'), (50, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24.2 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=es_AR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_AR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages exim4 depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.21     Debian configuration management sy
ii  exim4-base                    4.69-2+b1  support files for all Exim MTA (v4
ii  exim4-daemon-light            4.69-2+b1  lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon

exim4 recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
* exim4/drec: