[bug-notifications] [exim 0004988]: missing exim pidfile

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https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4988 
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Reported By:                cwood
Assigned To:                bwalton
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Project:                    exim
Issue ID:                   4988
Category:                   packaging
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             2012-08-02 23:37 CEST
Last Modified:              2012-08-05 00:49 CEST
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Summary:                    missing exim pidfile
Description: 
This is with:

/var/opt/csw/pkgutil/packages/exim-4.76,REV=2012.05.07-SunOS5.9-i386-CSW.pkg

The start clause in /var/opt/csw/svc/method/svc-cswexim reads (excerpts):


DAEMON=/opt/csw/sbin/exim
PIDFILE=/var/run/exim.pid

test -z "$EXIM_PARAMS" && EXIM_PARAMS="-bd -q30m"

case "$1" in
  start)
    echo "Starting MTA: \c"
    $DAEMON $EXIM_PARAMS
    echo "exim."
    ;;


This borks svcadm for disable and restart, as found in
/var/svc/log/network-cswexim:default.log:

[ Aug  2 17:10:59 Stopping because service disabled. ]
[ Aug  2 17:10:59 Executing stop method
("/var/opt/csw/svc/method/svc-cswexim stop"). ]
Stopping MTA: cat: cannot open /var/run/exim.pid: No such file or
directory
Usage: kill [-l] [-n signum] [-s signame] job ...
   Or: kill [ options ] -l [arg ...]


Because stop etc. need to read the pidfile:

  stop)
    echo "Stopping MTA: \c"
    kill `cat "$PIDFILE"`
    echo "exim."
      ;;


To fix this, please have exim write a pid file.

In /var/opt/csw/svc/method/svc-cswexim:

test -z "$EXIM_PARAMS" && EXIM_PARAMS="-bd -oP ${PIDFILE} -q30m"

In /etc/opt/csw/exim/exim-env.sh:

EXIM_PARAMS="-bd -oP /var/run/exim.pid -q30m"
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Relationships       ID      Summary
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related to          0004952 svc refresh bug
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 (0010082) cwood (reporter) - 2012-08-05 00:49
 https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4988#c10082 
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I will test when I'm back close to my Solaris host, thank you.