Bug#285858: No log rotation after exim3->exim4 upgrade

[Greg Kochanski]

Package: exim4
Version: 4.34-8
Severity: normal


If I do ls -lrt of /var/log/exim4, I see this:
gpk:exim$ sudo ls -lrt /var/log/exim4
total 5616
-rw-r-----  1 Debian-exim adm     152 Aug 26 07:29 paniclog.3.gz
-rw-r-----  1 Debian-exim adm     141 Sep  9 00:43 paniclog.1
-rw-r-----  1 Debian-exim adm     136 Sep  9 06:29 paniclog.2.gz
-rw-r-----  1 Debian-exim adm     670 Oct 11 06:29 rejectlog.10.gz
-rw-r-----  1 Debian-exim adm     659 Oct 12 06:30 rejectlog.9.gz
-rw-r-----  1 Debian-exim adm   16152 Oct 12 06:30 mainlog.10.gz
-rw-r-----  1 Debian-exim adm    1412 Oct 13 06:29 rejectlog.8.gz
-rw-r-----  1 Debian-exim adm   16694 Oct 13 06:29 mainlog.9.gz
-rw-r-----  1 Debian-exim adm     654 Oct 14 06:29 rejectlog.7.gz
-rw-r-----  1 Debian-exim adm   15890 Oct 14 06:29 mainlog.8.gz
-rw-r-----  1 Debian-exim adm    1387 Oct 15 06:29 rejectlog.6.gz
-rw-r-----  1 Debian-exim adm   26464 Oct 15 06:29 mainlog.7.gz
-rw-r-----  1 Debian-exim adm    1097 Oct 16 06:49 rejectlog.5.gz
-rw-r-----  1 Debian-exim adm   15685 Oct 16 06:49 mainlog.6.gz
-rw-r-----  1 Debian-exim adm   22363 Oct 17 06:34 mainlog.5.gz
-rw-r-----  1 Debian-exim adm    1694 Oct 18 06:50 rejectlog.4.gz
-rw-r-----  1 Debian-exim adm   17442 Oct 18 06:50 mainlog.4.gz
-rw-r-----  1 Debian-exim adm    1594 Oct 19 06:30 rejectlog.3.gz
-rw-r-----  1 Debian-exim adm   17535 Oct 19 06:30 mainlog.3.gz
-rw-r-----  1 Debian-exim adm    2572 Oct 20 05:41 rejectlog.1
-rw-r-----  1 Debian-exim adm  104559 Oct 20 06:32 mainlog.1
-rw-r-----  1 Debian-exim adm     565 Oct 20 06:33 rejectlog.2.gz
-rw-r-----  1 Debian-exim adm   17904 Oct 20 06:33 mainlog.2.gz
-rw-r-----  1 Debian-exim adm       0 Dec  8 08:55 paniclog
-rw-r-----  1 Debian-exim adm   97811 Dec 15 22:57 rejectlog
-rw-r-----  1 Debian-exim adm 5285498 Dec 16 00:17 mainlog

Note that it's been two months since mainlog was rotated;
it's starting to get pretty big.

-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.34 #1 built 20-Nov-2004 11:30:44
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2004
Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 3.2.9: (May 26, 2004)
Support for: iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dsearch nis nis0 passwd
Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
# /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
#
# Edit this file and /etc/mailname by hand and execute update-exim4.conf
# yourself or use 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'

dc_eximconfig_configtype='smarthost'
dc_other_hostnames='gpk.wftp.org : gpk.homeunix.net : kochanski.org : pribble.com : kochibble.com'
dc_local_interfaces=''
dc_readhost='kochanski.org'
dc_relay_domains=''
dc_minimaldns='false'
dc_relay_nets='192.168.1.0/25 : 192.168.1.128/25 : 127.0.0.1'
dc_smarthost='smtp.ntlworld.com'
CFILEMODE='644'
dc_use_split_config='true'
dc_hide_mailname='true'
mailname:kochanski.org

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages exim4 depends on:
ii  exim4-base                    4.34-8     EXperimental Internal Mailer -- a 
ii  exim4-daemon-light            4.34-8     Lightweight version of the Exim (v

-- no debconf information