Package: exim4-base
Version: 4.69-2+b1
When I run "/etc/init.d/exim4 start", it display the following message
and does not start exim:
Starting MTA:exim: incompatible command-line options or arguments
If I set EX4DEBUG, I see that the failing command is
/sbin/start-stop-daemon --start --nicelevel 0 --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/exim4
--oknodo --pidfile /var/run/exim4/exim.pid -- -bd -q30m '' '' ''
The last three arguments look suspicious and if I remove them, the
command runs successfully.
These arguments are empty strings because COMMONOPTIONS,
QUEUERUNNEROPTIONS, and SMTPLISTENEROPTIONS are set to the empty
string in /etc/default/exim4 and /etc/init.d/exim4 quotes their
expansions.
The attached patch does not quote their expansions, which fixes the
problem.
--
Matt
diff -ru exim4-4.69~/debian/exim4-base.exim4.init
exim4-4.69/debian/exim4-base.exim4.init
--- exim4-4.69~/debian/exim4-base.exim4.init 2008-04-21 15:39:06.000000000
-0700
+++ exim4-4.69/debian/exim4-base.exim4.init 2008-04-21 15:40:07.000000000
-0700
@@ -93,27 +93,27 @@
combined)
start_daemon -p "$PIDFILE" \
"$DAEMON" -bd "-q${QFLAGS}${QUEUEINTERVAL}" \
- "${COMMONOPTIONS}" "${QUEUERUNNEROPTIONS}" "${SMTPLISTENEROPTIONS}"
+ ${COMMONOPTIONS} ${QUEUERUNNEROPTIONS} ${SMTPLISTENEROPTIONS}
log_progress_msg "exim4"
;;
separate)
start_daemon -p "$PIDFILE" \
- "$DAEMON" -bd "${SMTPLISTENEROPTIONS}" "${COMMONOPTIONS}"
+ "$DAEMON" -bd ${SMTPLISTENEROPTIONS} ${COMMONOPTIONS}
log_progress_msg "exim4_listener"
start_daemon -p "$QRPIDFILE" \
"$DAEMON" -oP "$QRPIDFILE" \
- "-q${QFLAGS}${QUEUEINTERVAL}" "${QUEUERUNNEROPTIONS}"
"${COMMONOPTIONS}"
+ "-q${QFLAGS}${QUEUEINTERVAL}" ${QUEUERUNNEROPTIONS} ${COMMONOPTIONS}
log_progress_msg "exim4_queuerunner"
;;
queueonly)
start_daemon -p "$QRPIDFILE" \
"$DAEMON" -oP "$QRPIDFILE" \
- "-q${QFLAGS}${QUEUEINTERVAL}" "${QUEUERUNNEROPTIONS}"
"${COMMONOPTIONS}"
+ "-q${QFLAGS}${QUEUEINTERVAL}" ${QUEUERUNNEROPTIONS} ${COMMONOPTIONS}
log_progress_msg "exim4_queuerunner"
;;
no|ppp)
start_daemon -p "$PIDFILE" \
- "$DAEMON" -bd "${SMTPLISTENEROPTIONS}"
+ "$DAEMON" -bd ${SMTPLISTENEROPTIONS}
log_progress_msg "exim4_listener"
;;
nodaemon)
