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 -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421
