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

[Ross Boylan]

On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 21:23 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> tags #629610 confirmed
> end
> 
> 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.
> 
> Affirmative. our fault. log_failure_msg has started to add the "...
> failed" in some recent versions.
Just to be sure I understand: the failure message is in error, and exim
should be functioning normally, right?

Thanks.
Ross
> 
> While we're at it, lsb's cheangelog for 3.2-17 says
> "log_{success,failure,warning}_msg suck, please don't use them for
> Debian scripts.", so we should probably re-work the init script anyway.
> 
> Greetings
> Marc
>