Bug#640654: Fails to determinate log file path

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2011-09-06 Klaus Ethgen <Klaus at Ethgen.de> wrote:
> Package: eximon4
> Version: 4.76-2
> Severity: normal

> The eximon script fails to determinate the location of the log file if
> it is set to ':syslog' or 'syslog:'.


Just out of interest: Why would one set
log_file_path = :syslog
instead of 
log_file_path = syslog

> The reason is that it falls back to
> log subdirectory of spool directory what is completely wrong as the
> default log directory is /var/log/exim4.
[...]

FWIW, the default log subdirectory resulting from 'log_file_path =' is
indeed $spooldirectory/log. ;-)

cu andreas