Bug#396944: exim4-daemon-light: upgrading causes panic

[Marc Haber]

On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 01:06:01PM -0700, Bruce Sass wrote:
> 2006-11-03 02:05:38 socket bind() to port 25 for address (any IPv4) failed: Address alre
> ady in use: daemon abandoned
> 
> ...about the time an upgrade was in progress, yet...
> 
> bsass at onegee:~$ ps aux | grep exim
> 102       9302  0.0  0.1   5352  1000 ?        Ss   Oct28   0:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
> 
> ...would seem to indicate that it is a transitory situation caused by
> the upgrade process.

Probably. Did killing the existing daemon manually help with starting
the new daemon?

> The result is daily...
> 
> -e Subject: exim paniclog on onegee has non-zero size
> To: root
> 
> exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog on onegee has non-zero size, mail system might be broken
> 
> ...messages when there is no problem.

Yes, you'll need to rotate the paniclog away manually. See
/usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.gz chapter 2.5.1

If the message is continuously being written again and again over and
over, you have probably still an old daemon running.

> Disabling paniclog monitoring is not a reasonable option because I want
> to be advised if there is a problem, and using a regexp to filter out
> the noisy message could result in valid problems being missed.

Agreed.

Greetings
Marc

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