Bug#476958: exim4 logrotate do not restart exim

[Klaus Ethgen]

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Hi Marc,

Am So den 20. Apr 2008 um 13:53 schrieb Marc Haber:
> On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 01:42:53PM +0200, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> > On one of my hosts sometimes I get the message from it that exim holds
> > the deleted file /var/log/exim4/mainlog.1 open. So it seems for me that
> > it is not gracefully restart at the end of logrotate.
> 
> Please read spec.txt 49.2 and explain what exim does wrong in your
> opinion.

I cannot follow you. 49.2: "Selective queue listing (exiqgrep)"
What do that have to do with the problem above?

But even if you meant 49.6 this is a other problem. It do not solve the
problem that exim is still logging to a deleted file. Also exicyclog is
not used on debian systems. Debian uses the logrotate.d mechanism. And
this file do not have a restart for exim to use the new log file.

> Re-open the bug just in case the specification is flawed, and
> please elaborate how restarting the SMTP listener daemon might affect
> long-running delivery processes.

Please tell me which bug no. you think of.

Gruß
   Klaus
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