On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Michael Collin Nielsen wrote:
> Ie, if the exim proces is not a listening daemon, then a pid-file will
> never be written.
Ooops. Sorry. My apologies. I had a thinko and was talking nonsense again.
> In my case using the command above the exim proces does not listen,
> therefore it will never create a pid-file.
>
> Is this intentional ?
It was intentional that daemons without -bd shouldn't write pid files by
default (because -q-only daemons are 'anomalous').
I clearly overlooked this when I later added the -oP option. It
certainly seems right that if you specify -oP, it should override all
the defaults and force a pid file write.
I'll fix it for the next release - hopefully that will be out within the
next two weeks. I'm just doing final tidying and getting the
documentation updated.
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