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



On Tue, 4 May 2021 18:27:57 +0100
Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 4 May 2021 13:15:51 -0400
> Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 10:03:43AM -0700, John Conover wrote:  
> > > That was the question, Greg:
> > > 
> > >     "Searching for exim in
> > >     /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/* and
> > >     /lib/systemd/system/* yields nothing."
> > > 
> > > so, it wasn't there. Which service?, (or how to find out?)    
> > 
> > So... I looked around for a buster system with exim.  It looks like
> > exim on buster was never converted to a systemd startup.  It's still
> > using legacy /etc/init.d/exim4 which is a big ol' honkin' script.
> > 
> > So, you need to apply sysv-rc methods to work with it.  Normally
> > this means you cd into /etc/rc2.d and rename the S* symlink so that
> > it won't start up.
> >   
> 
> It's a systemd service on stretch and sid.
> 

...and buster. It's exim4.service as stated by:
 systemctl --type=service | grep exim

-- 
Joe


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