Bug#629610: exim4: misleading (?) "failed" message after paniclog warning

[Marc Haber]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 09:01:10PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> <terminal>
> # /etc/init.d/exim4 restart
> Stopping MTA for restart: exim4_listener.
> Restarting MTA: exim4.
> ALERT: exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size, mail system possibly broken ... failed!
> </terminal>
> 
> I read the "... failed!" as meaning that the non-zero paniclog has
> caused the restart to fail.

Please set EX4DEBUG=1 and submit the output.

Greetings
Marc

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