Re: [Exim] Debian Sarge Exim Crashing

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Author: Ryan Tracey
Date:  
To: Andreas Metzler
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Debian Sarge Exim Crashing
Hi Andreas

On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 14:21, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On 2004-07-01 Ryan Tracey <ryant@???> wrote:
> [...]
> > > > Exim version 4.32 #1 built 26-Apr-2004 09:57:22
> > >
> > >4.34 is current, and IIRC there is also an debian package for it.
>
> > I am aware of 4.34 being current. Nonetheless, the latest Debian Sarge
> > version appears to be 4.32-2.
> [...]
>
> 4.34 is blocked[1] from propagating to sarge by perl. - The 4.34 binary
> package depends on perl 5.8.4 and perl 5.84 cannot propagate into
> sarge because it triggers a gcc error on ARM, m68k and IA64 that
> causes it to fail to build from source.
>
> You can either pull exim4 (and perl) from unstable by temporarily
> adding sid to sources.list and using
> apt-get install exim4-daemon-heavy=4.34-2
> or by rebuilding it on sarge.
>              cu andreas
> [1] http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=exim4


I elected option A and installed the sid version. Seems to have gone smoothly. Thanks for the advice!

Still worried about why /etc/init.d/exim4 restart doesn't work when executed from cron... But, I'll take
that up with the cron maintainer.

Cheers,
Ryan