On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 09:44:40AM +1200, Jasen Betts wrote: > It would be nice if the checking of > /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp > could write its logs (particularly paniclog) to a different location > (stderr is probably sufficient)
That is hard to do. The only way to give a log_file_path that diverges from what was set at compilation time is to set it in the configuration file. If logging is done to report an error in the configuration file, the log_file_path given in the configuration file is not yet valid, causing the error message to go to paniclog, which is exactly what we want to avoid. To reach that behavior, it would be necessary to compile exim to report to a different place than paniclog, which may cause other conditions to be reported not in the paniclog. In my opinion, this is too much a deviation from the intended upstream behavior. Andreas may disagree. I am going to set this bug report to wontfix if Andreas doesn't state his disagreement by the end of September 2013. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 31958061 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 31958062 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
