Debian exim4 init script will not start exim after update

[Marc Haber]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 02:14:58PM +0100, Simon Day wrote:
> The default /etc/init.d/exim4 script now will not start exim.
> 
> The error message displayed is: exim: incompatible command-line options 
> or arguments
> 
> After investigation it seems the cause is the 3rd line of the 
> start_daemon call (commented out below)
> 
>       start_daemon -p "$PIDFILE" \
>         "$DAEMON" -bd "-q${QFLAGS}${QUEUEINTERVAL}" \
>         #"${COMMONOPTIONS}" "${QUEUERUNNEROPTIONS}" "${SMTPLISTENEROPTIONS}"
> 
> 
> Because (in my setup) COMMONOPTIONS, QUEUERUNNINGOPTIONS and 
> SMTPLISTENROPTIONS are empty it means that exim4 is called by 
> /sbin/start_stop_daemon with args which are empty
> 
> Exim says that these are incompatible options

Congratulations. You're the twentieth user who has reported this.
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report this.

Greetings
Marc


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