Re: [Exim] Alpha version issues:

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Author: John Horne
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Alpha version issues:
On 13-Dec-2001 at 07:57:17 Kirill Miazine wrote:
> * Derrick <dmacpher@???> [20011212 16:10]:
>> One very minor, in the default Makefile (src/EDTIME)
>> the pid line is missing a "%s"
>>
>> it has
>> # PID_FILE_PATH=/var/lock/exim.pid
>>
>> and should read
>> # PID_FILE_PATH=/var/lock/exim%s.pid
>
> It shouldn't. It was mentioned somewhere (can't remember where now, but
> it was for sure) that PID_FILE_PATH should no longer contain %s, but in
> case %s exists, it will be replaced with nothing.
>

In the "Exim4.upgrade" file (in the 'doc' sub-directory):

. The way the daemon wrote PID files was overly complicated and messy. It no
longer tries to be clever. A PID file is written if, and only if, -bd is
used and -oX is _not_ used. In other words, only if the daemon is started
with its standard options. There is only one PID file. If pid_file_path
is unset, it is exim-daemon.pid in Exim's spool directory. Otherwise the
value of pid_file_path is used. For backwards compatibility, "%s" in this
value is replaced by an empty string.


Regards,

John.

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