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From: Marc Haber <debian-bugs@marc-haber.de>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: patch to use /etc/default to control queue runs and daemon parameters
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Package: exim
Version: 3.22-1planNET3
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

please consider the following patch against /etc/init.d/exim
--- exim.orig	Thu Apr 26 14:08:09 2001
+++ exim	Thu Apr 26 14:26:18 2001
@@ -12,11 +12,17 @@
 
 test -x $DAEMON || exit 0
 
+# Source defaults file.
+EXIM_PARAMS="-bd -q30m"
+if [ -f /etc/default/exim ]; then
+  . /etc/default/exim
+fi
+
 case "$1" in
   start)
     update-inetd --disable smtp
     echo -n "Starting MTA: "
-    start-stop-daemon --start --exec $DAEMON -- -bd -q30m
+    start-stop-daemon --start --exec $DAEMON -- $EXIM_PARAMS
     echo "exim."
     ;;
   stop)
@@ -27,7 +33,7 @@
   restart)
     echo "Restarting MTA: "
     start-stop-daemon --stop --oknodo --exec $DAEMON
-    start-stop-daemon --start --exec $DAEMON -- -bd -q30m
+    start-stop-daemon --start --exec $DAEMON -- $EXIM_PARAMS
     echo "exim."
     ;;
   reload|force-reload)



and the following new file /etc/default/exim:
# daemon parameters

EXIM_PARAMS="-bd -q30m"

# do queue runs in the cron job
# set this to the empty string if you don't want queue runs

EXIM_CRON_QUEUE_RUN="y"


Together with /etc/cron.d/exim

# /etc/cron.d/exim: crontab fragment for exim

# Run queue every 30 minutes
08,38 *     * * *     mail   . /etc/default/exim ; if [ -n "$EXIM_CRON_QUEUE_RUN" -a -x /usr/sbin/exim -a -f /etc/exim/exim.conf ]; then /usr/sbin/exim -q >/dev/null 2>&1; fi

this will give pretty good control over exim daemon's behavior without
having to change the conffiles /etc/init.d/exim and /etc/cron.d/exim.
This conforms to Debian policy.

Greetings
Marc

-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux paola 2.2.19 #1 Wed Apr 18 19:00:04 CEST 2001 i686

Versions of packages exim depends on:
ii  cron               3.0pl1-57.2           management of regular background p
ii  libc6              2.1.3-17              GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libdb2             2:2.7.7-2.2planNET2.2 The Berkeley database routines (ru
ii  libident           0.22-2                simple RFC1413 client library - ru
ii  libldap2           2.0.7-2planNET2       OpenLDAP libraries.               
ii  libpam0g           0.72-9                Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpcre3           3.3-5planNET5         Philip Hazel's Perl Compatible Reg
ii  libsasl7           1.5.24-5planNET5      Authentication abstraction library
ii  netbase            4.05planNET05         Basic TCP/IP networking system    

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/cron.daily/exim changed [not included]
/etc/ppp/ip-up.d/exim [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/ppp/ip-up.d/exim'