Bug#989608: Create /var/spool/exim4/msglog.OLD upon installation

[Thomas Landauer]

Yeah, sorry, I forgot that.

BTW: The setting is `preserve_message_logs`, see 
https://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-log_files.html#SECID260

You can close this (I don't know how to...)

Cheers,
Thomas

Am 08.06.21 um 18:05 schrieb Andreas Metzler:
> On 2021-06-08 Thomas Landauer <thomas at landauer.at> wrote:
>> Package: exim4
>> Severity: wishlist
> 
>> It looks like the /var/spool/exim4/msglog.OLD directory is only created by
>> Exim itself after the first messagelog is going to be written there.
> 
>> If you need custom permissions on this directory, it would be nice to be
>> able to set those permissions right within the deployment process, i.e.
>> before Exim has sent any mail. So I'm suggesting to create it right away,
>> during the installation.
> 
>> I've already suggested this at https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2768
>> but got the answer that this is more a distribution thing :-)
> 
> Hello Thomas,
> 
> /var/spool/exim4/msglog.OLD is only used if a specific exim4 setting is
> enabled which is not enabled by default. So enabling this requires a
> local manual step and when you do it you can also mkdir the directory
> with specific local permissions. You can use dpkg-statoverride
> which you could not use before, but that is a small win, imho.
> The benefit-cost-ratio seems to be off, shipping an empty directory in
> millions of installations that is going to be useless for all but a few
> installations.
> 
> cu Andreas
>