[Pkg-exim4-users] Startscript fails

[Peter Velan]

Hello,

my exim4 4.69 run smoothly w/out being restarted for a couple of weeks.
Then I had to made a small modification inside of exim4.conf (= selfmade
monolithic /etc/exim4/exim4.conf).

Now, I have troubles to restart exim via:

# /etc/init.d/exim4 restart
exim: incompatible command-line options or arguments

Starting the daemon with

# exim4 -bd -q30m

is successful!

The start of the init.d script with -x options delivers:

# bash -x /etc/init.d/exim4 restart
+ [...]
+ /sbin/start-stop-daemon --start --nicelevel 0 --quiet --exec
/usr/sbin/exim4 --oknodo --pidfile /var/run/exim4/exim.pid -- -bd -q30m
'' '' ''
exim: incompatible command-line options or arguments

The manual start of the daemon is successful, so I do not believe, that
the small change inside of exim4.conf provokes the malfunction of
init.d-restart.

Where's my fault?

Greetings,
Peter