Bug#476958: exim4 logrotate do not restart exim

[Marc Haber]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 02:30:55PM +0200, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> 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?

    49.2. Logging to local files that are periodically "cycled"

If you report things against exim that will only be fixed in unstable
anyway, it is a good idea to see current docs for that. See
http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/index.html.

This documentation is going to answer the question you asked in the
rest of your e-mail.

> > 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.

This bug, #476958.

Greetings
Marc

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