Unless Nancy wants this permanently, a better solution is
to manually kill the running daemon
Then restart it with the flags you want.
Starting exim with -bd - whatever
should run it in background.
Note: Log files will grow fairly fast.
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Dave C. wrote:
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= You need to edit whatever script normally starts exim to include these
= options... If you are using redhat, it probably lives under
= /etc/rc.d/init.d/
=
= On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Nancy Pettigrew wrote:
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= > i would like to run exim with the -bd option, but also include the -v or -d1
= > options for more verbose output.
= > however, using these options from the command line causes the program to run
= > in the foreground, rather than daemonize and print the more verbose output
= > to the exim logs.
= >
= > is there a way around this?
= >
= > thank you.
= >
= >
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