Bug#890236: exim4-daemon-heavy: /usr/sbin/exim4 -bV with log_selector = arguments logs to stderr

[Paul Slootman]

On Mon 12 Feb 2018, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On 2018-02-12 Paul Slootman <paul at debian.org> wrote:
> > Package: exim4-daemon-heavy
> > Version: 4.90.1-1
> > Severity: normal
> 
> > After upgrading from 4.89-2 to 4.90-1.1 I get a mail from the cron.daily
> > run, due to /usr/sbin/exim4 -bV outputting this line to stderr instead
> > of to /var/log/exim4/mainlog like it used to:
> 
> > 2018-02-12 11:34:05.084 [29152] cwd=/tmp 2 args: /usr/sbin/exim4 -bV
> 
> > I do have "arguments" included in my log_selector, I find it useful to
> > see that, in the mainlog. Apparently something has changed so that it
> > now logs to stderr.
> 
> > Please revert to the old behaviour.
> 
> Hello,
> I am unable to verify that exim's behavior has changed from 4.89-2 to
> 4.90.1-1 in this respect:
> ametzler at argenau:/tmp/EXIM4$ exim4-daemon-light_4.89-1_amd64/usr/sbin/exim4 -bV > /dev/null
> 2018-02-12 19:02:03 cwd=/tmp/EXIM4 2 args: exim4-daemon-light_4.89-1_amd64/usr/sbin/exim4 -bV
> ametzler at argenau:/tmp/EXIM4$ exim4-daemon-light_4.90.1-1_amd64/usr/sbin/exim4 -bV > /dev/null
> 2018-02-12 19:02:17 cwd=/tmp/EXIM4 2 args: exim4-daemon-light_4.90.1-1_amd64/usr/sbin/exim4 -bV

Hmm, I was upgrading a bunch of systems yesterday, it could be that the
system with the "arguments" in log_selector was another one, previously
running 4.84.2-2+deb8u1.


Paul