On Sat, 30 Jan 2016, admin@??? wrote:
> https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1784
>
> Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@???> changed:
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> What |Removed |Added
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> CC| |arekm@???
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> --- Comment #2 from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@???> ---
> "When -oX is used on the command line to start a listening
> daemon, the process id is not written to the normal pid file
> path. However, -oP can be used to specify a path on the com???
> mand line if a pid file is required."
>
> Doh, is there any reason for such werid behaviour?
I'd guess that the assumption was that the config file would be used
for the live service; setting things like this on the command-line
would typically be during testing, when it would be a bad idea
to interfere with the pid file for the live service ?