Bug#446346: exim4-config: Bit me too

[Marc Haber]

On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 12:04:44AM +0000, Ben Wheeler wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 07:51:08PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 06:28:14PM +0000, Ben Wheeler wrote:
> > > This episode has raised an interesting point. It took me a couple of days 
> > > to realise that mail had dried up and check the paniclog. Mail going down
> > > is the one thing you won't be mailed about. So I've added
> > > mail.err                        *
> > > to /etc/syslog.conf in the hope that I won't be left in the dark
> > > about it in future.
> > 
> > Does not work, since exim does not log through syslog.
> 
> Not exim, no, but cronjob /etc/cron.daily/exim4-base monitors paniclog 
> and logs through syslog with priority mail.alert if there's something 
> in there (probably more than once a day would be better but there's
> other stuff in there too).

Ah. Good. I thought of that when I implemented the check. Thanks for
reminding me.

Greetings
Marc

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