Package: exim4 Version: 4.88~RC4-2 Severity: normal Hi,
having a native systemd service for exim4 would be great. The sysv init script does a *lot* of stuff though, so I don't know, how easily a systemd conversion is possible. As an intermediate step, you can at least help systemd along a little, and tell it, that the sysv init scrip starts a long running process. For that, the magic # pidfile comment exists. If that is set, systemd will set the proper type (Type=forking) and will correctly set the main pid, i.e. it will notice if the main process this. So, while I would appreciate if exim4 would provide native systemd support (and if you any questions trying to that, please contact the pkg-systemd-maintainers@a.l.d.o m-l), we can a least improve the status-quo by adding --- exim4.dpkg-dist 2016-09-25 14:46:29.000000000 +0200 +++ exim4 2015-11-16 14:25:07.000000000 +0100 @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ # Short-Description: exim Mail Transport Agent # Description: exim is a Mail Transport agent ### END INIT INFO +# pidfile: /var/run/exim4/exim.pid Thansk for considering, Michael -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages exim4 depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.59 ii exim4-base 4.88~RC4-2 ii exim4-daemon-light 4.88~RC4-2 exim4 recommends no packages. exim4 suggests no packages. -- debconf information excluded
