[Pkg-exim4-users] exim won''t start

Rick Pasotto
2008-05-03T21:13:38Z

While upgrading my system this morning it froze and I had to reboot for
the first time in a long time. (I keep current with testing on a daily
basis). Everything seemed normal until I noticed that I was not
receiving any mail. ''ps ax | grep exim'' revealed that exim was
not
running. When I ran ''/etc/init.d/exim4 start'' manually I got
the error
message:

Restarting MTA:exim: incompatible command-line options or arguments

What is going on? I certainly haven''t edited /etc/init.d/exim4. Running
''exim4 -bd'' at least gets it running but I shouldn''t
have to do that and
I know I''ve left out one or more arguments. ''apt-cache
policy'' gives:

$ apt-cache policy exim4-base exim4-daemon-heavy eximon4
exim4-base:
  Installed: 4.69-2+b1
  Candidate: 4.69-2+b1
  Version table:
     4.69-5+b1 0
        200 ftp://ftp.debian.org unstable/main Packages
 *** 4.69-2+b1 0
        990 ftp://debian.uchicago.edu testing/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
exim4-daemon-heavy:
  Installed: 4.69-2+b1
  Candidate: 4.69-2+b1
  Version table:
     4.69-5+b1 0
        200 ftp://ftp.debian.org unstable/main Packages
 *** 4.69-2+b1 0
        990 ftp://debian.uchicago.edu testing/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
eximon4:
  Installed: 4.69-2+b1
  Candidate: 4.69-2+b1
  Version table:
     4.69-5+b1 0
        200 ftp://ftp.debian.org unstable/main Packages
 *** 4.69-2+b1 0
        990 ftp://debian.uchicago.edu testing/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Should I upgrade to the unstable version? How can I determine what the
command line arguments that init.d is using are so I can figure out
what''s incompatible?

--
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 least?; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and
 systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which I also
 believe -- ?that government is best which governs not at all?; and
 when men are prepared for it, that is the kind of government which
 they will have." -- Henry David Thoreau
     Rick Pasotto    rick at niof.net    http://www.niof.net