On 6 Feb 2019, at 22:03, Klaus Ethgen via Exim-users <exim-users@???> wrote: > So there was a bug introduced in the last few weeks in start-stop-daemon
> that I have to find a way around. The current situation is not
> acceptable.
At this point I’m going to be the person who says “this is not an Exim problem”.
It’s affecting exim, I don’t doubt that - but start-stop-daemon is a feature of the init system in Debian, so you do need to raise it with them despite your misgivings about doing so.