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

Rick Pasotto
2008-05-04T02:39:05Z

On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 05:13:38PM -0400, Rick Pasotto
wrote:
> 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?

Just saw Sebastian Tennant''s reply in the ''exim4
issues'' thread.

That did fix it but I really can''t see how. All those variables are
empty!

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