On Tue, 4 May 2021 18:44:12 -0400
Greg Wooledge <g...@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
