Bug#796368: /etc/init.d/exim4 hardcodes configurable parameters

[Lars Timmann]

Package: exim4-base
Version: 4.86-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Hi exim4-base-maintainers!

At Ubuntu I filed a bug (RFE) as
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1486626 .
Robie Basak pointet me to the debian maintainers.
So here I am :-).

The config gives possibilities to get the own config into the
Debian/Ubuntu exim4 environment, but the inflexible /etc/init.d/exim4
start script does not.

I changed some lines and the executing shell to make it more flexible.
The script tries to get as much as it can from exim4 -bP <variable> so
the exim config defines the values. In my opinion this makes sense
because the started exim daemon is running with this config.

For example if you change the logging location, the startscript should
look for the paniclog at the new location.

I am living on Ubuntu/trusty the package I pulled for the patch is from
http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/exim4/exim4-base_4.86-2_amd64.deb
which is sid I think.

Please take a look on my changes and please ask if there are questions.

Thank you for your time and work!

  Lars

-- 
"There is always an easy solution to every human problem -
 neat, plausible and wrong."
(Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist and social critic)

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