Bug#477239: exim4-base: empty argument in init.d prevents starting

[Kevin Ryde]

Package: exim4-base
Version: 4.69-2+b1
Severity: normal
File: /etc/init.d/exim4

In what I think is "daemon-light" mode, at boot time, or when running
/etc/init.d/exim4 directy, attempting to start exim fails with

	exim: incompatible command-line options or arguments

This is with "QUEUERUNNER=no", and nosing around suggests the
"${SMTPLISTENEROPTIONS}" argument is empty, and that exim doesn't like
getting an empty argument at the end of the command line.

Bug 476987 asks for lsb-base's "start_daemon" to strip empty args, as
it's done in the past apparently, but I would think /etc/init.d/exim4
probably oughtn't put quotes around "${SMTPLISTENEROPTIONS}" etc if it's
not meant to be an empty arg when SMTPLISTENEROPTIONS etc is unset or
empty.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i586)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-486
Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages exim4-base depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.107      add and remove users and groups
ii  cron                          3.0pl1-104 management of regular background p
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.21     Debian configuration management sy
ii  exim4-config [exim4-config-2] 4.69-2     configuration for the Exim MTA (v4
ii  libc6                         2.7-10     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdb4.6                      4.6.21-7   Berkeley v4.6 Database Libraries [
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-10     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  netbase                       4.32       Basic TCP/IP networking system

Versions of packages exim4-base recommends:
ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]  8.1.2-0.20071201cvs-2 A simple mail user agent
ii  mailx              1:20071201-2          Transitional package for mailx ren
ii  psmisc             22.6-1                Utilities that use the proc filesy

-- debconf information:
  exim4/purge_spool: false
  exim4-base/drec:
  exim4/move_exim3_spool: false