On 2019-02-05 19:41:22 +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Do the warning messages quoted above show up on every stop/start? Is the > issue, (service exim4 stop does not stop the daemon) reproducible?
Well, this is worse: # service exim4 stop # service exim4 start yields a second running daemon, as root: Debian-+ 1227 1 0 Feb04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q5m root 17597 1 0 02:18 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q5m and I still get the error message in the logs: Feb 06 02:18:08 cventin systemd[1]: Stopping LSB: exim Mail Transport Agent... Feb 06 02:18:08 cventin exim4[17314]: Stopping MTA:/sbin/start-stop-daemon: matching only on non-root pidfile /run/exim4/exim.pid is insecure Feb 06 02:18:08 cventin exim4[17314]: exim4_listener. Feb 06 02:18:08 cventin exim4[17314]: ALERT: exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size, mail system possibly broken Feb 06 02:18:08 cventin systemd[1]: exim4.service: Succeeded. Feb 06 02:18:08 cventin systemd[1]: Stopped LSB: exim Mail Transport Agent. Feb 06 02:18:11 cventin systemd[1]: exim4.service: Found left-over process 1227 (exim4) in control group while starting unit. Ignoring. Feb 06 02:18:11 cventin systemd[1]: This usually indicates unclean termination of a previous run, or service implementation deficiencies. Feb 06 02:18:11 cventin systemd[1]: Starting LSB: exim Mail Transport Agent... Feb 06 02:18:12 cventin exim4[17350]: Starting MTA: exim4. Feb 06 02:18:12 cventin exim4[17350]: ALERT: exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size, mail system possibly broken Feb 06 02:18:12 cventin systemd[1]: Started LSB: exim Mail Transport Agent. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
