Bug#796524: Exim4 has stale filehandle after logrotate

[Marc Haber]

On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 12:58:43PM +0200, Andreas Pflug wrote:
> After 2 executions of logrotate, lsof shows a mainlog.1 as deleted file.
> Apparently, exim4 keeps a logfile open although it will never write to
> it again.
> This appears as an exim4 bug to me, since exim4 is supposed to close all
> its logfiles after writing, but in the meantime this can easily be fixed
> by a postrotate script using
> 
>         postrotate
>                 invoke-rc.d exim4 reload > /dev/null
>         endscript

Please check chapter 51.2 of /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/spec.txt.gz and
state that exim does not behave as specified after checking. Will
report the issue upstream then, and only then.

Greetings
Marc

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