Bug#399930: logrotation race condition with exim writing to logs

[Marc Haber]

block #399930 with #400198
thanks

On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 01:15:01PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> This might as well be a logrotate bug which I plan to investigate in
> due time.

I have filed this as a bug in logrotate, #400198. I have additionally
opened exim wishlist item #418
(http://www.exim.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=418), where I ask for an
exim option to write to a log file to be created. This option could be
abused to force exim to generate the log file in a postrotate script.

Other than this and listing a manual change to logrotate.d/exim4-base
as a possible workaround, I do not plan to do anything more about this.

Greetings
Marc

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