Hi, one Debian exim user reports (see http://bugs.debian.org/476958) that his exim SMTP listener process (the one running with -bd -q30m) keeps /var/log/exim/mainlog open for days after log rotation:
|# ps auxww | grep [4]349 |102 4349 0.0 0.2 11756 2884 ? Ss Apr26 0:01 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m |# lsof -p 4349 |COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME |[snippage] |exim4 4349 Debian-exim 6w REG 3,5 184728 128 /var/log/exim4/mainlog.1 (deleted) Since Debian rotates mainlog daily, this means that the file wasn't closed for at least more than 24 hours, after /var/log/exim4/mainlog was rotated to /var/log/exim4/mainlog.1 and, the day later, was compressed to /var/log/exim4/mainlog.2.gz and deleted. I have never seen this happen on any of my own systems, and Debian has been shipping this setup of exim 4.63 as part of our default install in the stable distribution for more than a year. I therefore strongly suspect that this is a local issue on the system of the bug reporter, but since exim is documented to close the log immediately after writing to it, which situation could lead to the log kept open for this excessive amount of time? Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834 -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
