Thanks. I'll debug my configuration using a command-line invoked exim, then
re-instate the call from the init scripts.
james
On Jul 8, 11:47am, Philip Hazel wrote:
> (1) -df was invented as a way of collecting debugging information from Exims
> started up by inetd.
>
> (2) I never expected anybody wanting to run the daemon with debugging
> turned on in the system boot up files.
>
> (3) You can run the daemon with debugging just by killing it, and then
> obeying
>
> exim -d5 -bd -q1h
>
> manually (as root). The debugging output is then written to stderr.
> However, if you do this, the daemon does not disconnect from the
> controlling terminal. This means you can kill it with ^C, even if you
> have re-directed stderr somewhere else. (It is presumably this feature
> that is causing the problems when you put -d in the system boot file.)
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