Bug#498999: Every Morning's Email

[Kent West]

Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On 2009-02-19 Kent West <westk at acu.edu> wrote:
>   
>> Scratch the quotation of the body below: somehow in my copy/pasting I
>> got the lines reversed. Here's the real body:
>>     
>
>   
>>> exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog on goshen.campus.acu.edu has non-zero size, mail system might be broken. The last 10 lines are quoted below.
>>>
>>> 2009-02-15 22:20:20 Exim configuration error in line 28 of /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp:
>>>   malformed macro definition
>>>       
> [...]
>
> Is there only this single old (4 days ago) message in paniclog? Then
> you probably ended up temorarily with a broken config during upgrade
> (half new/half olf config file snippets or something like that. If yes
> stop the daemon, remove paniclog, restart daemon. 
> cu andreas
>
>   

Fri Feb 20     13:17:53
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westk[@]goshen]:/etc/logrotate.d:> sudo /etc/init.d/exim4 stop
Stopping MTA: exim4_listener.
ALERT: exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size, mail
system possibly broken failed!


Fri Feb 20     13:18:01
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westk[@]goshen]:/etc/logrotate.d:> sudo rm /var/log/exim4/paniclog


Fri Feb 20     13:18:10
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westk[@]goshen]:/etc/logrotate.d:> sudo /etc/init.d/exim4 start
Starting MTA: exim4.


Fri Feb 20     13:18:12
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westk[@]goshen]:/etc/logrotate.d:> sudo /etc/init.d/exim4 restart
Stopping MTA for restart: exim4_listener.
Restarting MTA: exim4.


Looks like that stopped the error messages.

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