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Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d

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On Tue, 4 May 2021 18:44:12 -0400
Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:

> On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 10:14:45PM +0100, Joe wrote:
> > ...and buster. It's exim4.service as stated by:
> >  systemctl --type=service | grep exim  
> 
> According to packages.debian.org[1] there is no such file in any
> package.
> 
> Of course, that's not proof of the nonexistence of such a file,
> because it might have been created by some postinst script.  In
> theory.
> 
> Could you kindly tell us what "systemctl status exim4.service" says
> on this buster machine of yours?  Perhaps your command is turning up
> one of the automatically converted init.d scripts.  If so, this will
> be made clear in the systemctl status report.

● exim4.service - LSB: exim Mail Transport Agent
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/exim4; generated)
   Active: active (running) since Wed 2021-03-31 08:38:00 BST; 1 months
4 days ago Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
    Tasks: 1 (limit: 2062)
   CGroup: /system.slice/exim4.service
           └─6453 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m


> 
> It would also be helpful to know which of the multiple different exim4
> package sets you're working with. 

Probably worth mentioning that this is on a Raspberry Pi, the current
version of RasPiOs (formerly Raspbian) with a default exim4
installation.

sudo dpkg -l | grep exim
ii  exim4                          4.92-8+deb10u5
 all          metapackage to ease Exim MTA (v4) installation ii
exim4-base                     4.92-8+deb10u5
armhf        support files for all Exim MTA (v4) packages ii
exim4-config                   4.92-8+deb10u5
all          configuration for the Exim MTA (v4) ii  exim4-daemon-light
            4.92-8+deb10u5                        armhf
lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon


> Perhaps this alleged exim4.service
> comes from the -heavy daemon package.  All I can tell you is that on
> the buster system that I checked, which is using the
> exim4-daemon-light package, there is *no* exim4.service, but there
> *is* an init.d script, and systemctl status exim4 shows this plainly.
> 
> [1]
> https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=exim4.service&mode=exactfilename&suite=stable&arch=any
> 

I have the same service on my main server (stretch) where it is the
network MTA and also on my sid workstation. Again, I didn't do anything
to achieve this. Presumably it's using an init.d script, but it
certainly works to start and stop exim4 via systemctl.

-- 
Joe

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exim update not responding to update-rc.d conover@rahul.net (John Conover) - 2021-05-04 18:30 +0200
  Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-05-04 18:50 +0200
    Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d conover@rahul.net (John Conover) - 2021-05-04 19:10 +0200
      Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-05-04 19:20 +0200
        Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-05-04 19:30 +0200
          Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-05-04 23:20 +0200
            Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-05-05 00:50 +0200
              Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-05-05 13:10 +0200
                Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-05-05 13:50 +0200
                Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-05-05 16:30 +0200
                Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-05-05 16:40 +0200
        Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-05-04 19:40 +0200
      Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-05-04 19:30 +0200
        Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> - 2021-05-04 19:30 +0200
          Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2021-05-04 20:00 +0200
            Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d conover@rahul.net (John Conover) - 2021-05-04 22:30 +0200
              Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-05-04 22:40 +0200
                Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-05-04 23:00 +0200
  Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> - 2021-05-07 02:20 +0200
    Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> - 2021-05-07 02:20 +0200

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