Bug#476958: exim4 logrotate do not restart exim

[Marc Haber]

On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 10:39:16AM +0200, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> Am Di den 22. Apr 2008 um 16:10 schrieb Marc Haber:
> > Please give proof that the log file still is open, which exim process
> > has it opened, and what the exim process is doing while keeping the
> > log file open.
> 
> See the attachment!

I would like to know what are the last lines of mainlog.2.gz, whether
they were written after mainlog was rotated to mainlog.1, and what
exiwhat says about process 4349.

That being said, I now believe that you are actually seeing the
behavior that you originally reported, I think that your exim is not
behaving as it is documented to behave, and have asked on exim-users
what could possibly be the cause of this.

I do, however, think that this is a behavior local to your system,
since the results are rather blatant, and we have been shipping exim
4.63 with this log rotation scheme as part of our stable default
install for more than a year and the issue would have been surfacing
before. I am therefore not prepared to implement the change you
suggested.

Greetings
Marc

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