[Pkg-exim4-users] Startscript fails

[Andreas Metzler]

Peter Velan <pv0001 at dynapic.net> wrote:
> 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
[...]
> Where's my fault?

Hello,
in not consulting <http://bugs.debian.org/src:exim4>.
This is <http://bugs.debian.org/477194>, fixed in 4.69-3 and later.
Temporarily downgrading lsb-base to 3.2-8 is the easiest workaround.
cu andreas
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