Bug#391892: exim4-base: combination of logrotate file and cron.d file result in spurious warning mails

[Stephen Gran]

Package: exim4-base
Version: 4.63-4
Severity: normal

Hello,

/etc/logrotate.d/exim4-base contains a size parameter, preventing
it from rotating until the paniclog grows to this size.
/etc/cron.daily/exim4-base checks the paniclog every day, and by
default, sends an email if paniclog is a non-zero size.  This
combination results in sending an email every day about the same single
issue.  I have finally commented out the check panic log option in the
cron.daily script, although I consider this suboptimal - I would prefer
that it was just logrotated daily.  I can of course make all the
modifications myself, but it seems to me this is a poor default
arrangement.  Can the logrotate script go back to daily for the
paniclog?

Thanks,

-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.63 #1 built 01-Oct-2006 14:40:57
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2006
Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.3.29: (September  6, 2005)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS move_frozen_messages
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
Size of off_t: 8
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='gashuffer.lobefin.net'
dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1'
dc_readhost=''
dc_relay_domains=''
dc_minimaldns='false'
dc_relay_nets=''
dc_smarthost='mail.lobefin.net'
CFILEMODE='644'
dc_use_split_config='true'
dc_hide_mailname='false'
dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
mailname:gashuffer.lobefin.net

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF8)

Versions of packages exim4-base depends on:
ii  adduser                      3.97        Add and remove users and groups
ii  cron                         3.0pl1-97   management of regular background p
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]        1.5.5       Debian configuration management sy
ii  exim4-config [exim4-config-2 4.63-4      configuration for the exim MTA (v4
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdb4.3                     4.3.29-6    Berkeley v4.3 Database Libraries [
ii  lsb-base                     3.1-17      Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  netbase                      4.27        Basic TCP/IP networking system

Versions of packages exim4-base recommends:
ii  psmisc                        22.3-1     Utilities that use the proc filesy

-- debconf information:
  exim4/purge_spool: false
  exim4/move_exim3_spool: false

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