Bug#768874: "exim4 restart" updates config while running

[Andreas Metzler]

Control: tags -1 pending

On 2014-11-09 Jakub Warmuz <jakub at warmuz.org> wrote:
> Package: exim4-base
> Version: 4.80-7+deb7u1
[...]
> Now, "/etc/init.d/exim4 restart" updates the config while exim is
> running, which is exactly what manpage warns against!

> > restart)
> >   log_daemon_msg "Stopping MTA for restart"
> >   # regenerate exim4.conf
> >   upex4conf
> >   isconfigvalid
> >   stop_exim
> >   log_end_msg 0
> >   sleep 2
> >   log_daemon_msg "Restarting MTA"
> >   start_exim
> >   log_end_msg 0
> >   warn_paniclog
> >   ;;

> Typo in in the exim4-config manpages (also 4.80-7+deb7u1) or bug in
> exim4-base that can lead to problems when exim forks for SMTP receiving
> or queue running?
[...]

Thank you, fixed in GIT.

cu Andreas
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