Bug#592609: exim4-daemon-light: race condition in init scripts when listening on multiple ports

[Marc Haber]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 01:52:12PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
> SMTPLISTENEROPTIONS='-oX 587:465:25'
> 
> ...in /etc/default/exim4

from spec.txt:
|    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 command line if a pid file is required.

If you don't tell exim to write a pidfile, you cannot rely on the init
script working.

In my opinion, not a bug.

Greetings
Marc

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