Bug#202901: exim4: No logrotate cron job

Andreas Metzler Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>, 202901@bugs.debian.org
Wed, 22 Dec 2004 09:28:17 +0100


On 2004-12-22 Greg Kochanski <gpk@kochanski.org> wrote:
> Adam D. Barratt wrote:
[...]
> >If /etc/cron.daily/exim (and by extension from the cron job
> >posted /var/log/exim/) still exists after exim4 has been installed, then
> >I'd suspect exim has only been removed, not purged.

> That's probably true.   I doubt that I would have purged exim until
> I was quite sure that exim4 was working well.   By then I probably
> forgot.

> So, why is that important?

It is not really important, exim4 is designed to work nicely with a
uninstalled but not purged exim, just a hint that there is some cruft
on your system you might to want to get rid of.
             cu andreas
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