On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Dean Brooks wrote:
> Using Exim4, I have spool_directory set in our config files
> to alternate directories for some of our fallback configurations.
>
> However, I noticed that the pid file was written out to /var/spool/exim,
> the compile time default, rather than into the actual spool directory
> specified in the configuration file.
>
> Is this intended behavior?
>
> I guess I could explicitly specify the pid_path, but seems like it
> should default to the spool_directory.
When the daemon starts, it does read the configuration file before it
writes out the pid file. So it should be writing to the spool directory
mentioned in the configuration. So there's something a bit more
complicated going on here. Can you provide more details of exactly what
you are doing?
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