Bug#379898: exim4-base: Could create cronjob to check paniclog

[Andrew Ferrier]

On 2006-07-26 at 19:51 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:

> On 2006-07-26 Andrew Ferrier <andrew at new-destiny.co.uk> wrote:
> > Package: exim4-base
> > Version: 4.62-1
> > Severity: wishlist
> 
> > The exim4 specification recommends creating a cronjob to check that
> > paniclog is empty: (see third bullet point from the top)
> 
> > http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.40/doc/html/spec_45.html
> 
> > It would useful to have one of these shipped by Debian's exim4 by
> > default, probably installed into /etc/cron.d. Presumably it would email
> > root if the file wasn't empty.
> [...]
> 
> Shouldn't this be done by logwatch or similar stuff? Every single
> package watching its own logfiles seems a little bit wasteful.
> cu andreas

Actually, yes, that would be a good idea. Perhaps the only issue is
that then leads to the email-problem-recursing-on-email-problem again.

Thanks,
Andrew.

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