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
Peter Velan wrote:> 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). > > > Where''s my fault?Hi Like you, I run debian testing, the problem is with lsb-base. Marc Haber reported the fault, and apparently changes / bug has been made, but as far as I know this is on for unstable. So we will have to wait. I too dont like, this (cause then I consider debian testing as broken (cause admins have to self start the service)), but hopefully soon it all will be fixed. For further reading: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=477194 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=406059 Regards Brent Clark
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 -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.'' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure''
am 12.05.2008 13:18 schrieb Brent Clark:> Peter Velan 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). >> >> Where''s my fault? > > Like you, I run debian testing, the problem is with lsb-base. > > Marc Haber reported the fault, and apparently changes / bug has been > made, but as far as I know this is on for unstable. > > So we will have to wait.Ah, thank you very much for the ultra-fast response ;-) So we have to wait. Not a big problem at all.> For further reading: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=477194 > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=406059Thank you for guidance to the appropriate bug. Cheers, Peter PS: Brent, excuse the off-list email.
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 01:32:40PM +0200, Peter Velan wrote:> So we have to wait. Not a big problem at all.I did not wait. My sources list contains a line refering to sid for src-packages and I just did a ''wajig build exim4'' on all my testing machines. Regards. Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." II Timothy 2:15
am 12.05.2008 13:25 schrieb 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? > > in not consulting <http://bugs.debian.org/src:exim4>.Yep, definitely: mea culpa! Peter
Brent Clark wrote:> I too dont like, this (cause then I consider debian testing as broken > (cause admins have to self start the service)), but hopefully soon it > all will be fixed.Testing is often broken, that''s why it''s called testing. I would think. I have been told if you want the newest it is better to use unstable instead of testing. Since fixes to broken things will enter much more quickly to unstable whilst it can take weeks to enter testing. Of course, if you run an email server you should ideally use stable. Greetings, Jeroen