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Not staying enabled over reboot
Hi, folks,

EPEL's exim 4.96|7 is not staying enabled through a reboot on my RHEL
7 servers.

Has anyone else seen this? Have you found a way to cope with it? It's
very strange. I'm a big fan of systemd and not used to it acting up.

Thanks,

John A

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Re: Not staying enabled over reboot [ In reply to ]
On 16/02/2024 20:30, Johnnie W Adams via Exim-users wrote:
> EPEL's exim 4.96|7 is not staying enabled through a reboot on my RHEL
> 7 servers.
>
> Has anyone else seen this? Have you found a way to cope with it? It's
> very strange. I'm a big fan of systemd and not used to it acting up.

More of a systemd question than Exim per se. What state is the service in,
after the reboot? Did it shut down cleanly as part of the reboot?
What gets logged? What does the journal say?
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Re: Not staying enabled over reboot [ In reply to ]
On Fri, 16 Feb 2024, Johnnie W Adams via Exim-users wrote:

> Hi, folks,
>
> EPEL's exim 4.96|7 is not staying enabled through a reboot on my RHEL
> 7 servers.
>
> Has anyone else seen this? Have you found a way to cope with it? It's
> very strange. I'm a big fan of systemd and not used to it acting up.

Rings a bell.

Something about how or when, or as whom, new Exim processes start
does not match systemd's expectation.
I have seen recipies for particular OSes for telling systemd about this.
Maybe installing an updated version somehow broke this communication ?

Sorry I don't remember any of the details.

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