Bug#498999: Every Morning's Email

Kent West westk at acu.edu
Thu Feb 19 16:33:48 UTC 2009


Brett Parker wrote:
> On 19 Feb 07:53, Kent West wrote:
>   
>> Scratch the quotation of the body below: somehow in my copy/pasting I
>> got the lines reversed. Here's the real body:
>>
>>     
>>> exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog on goshen.campus.acu.edu has non-zero size, mail system might be broken. The last 10 lines are quoted below.
>>>
>>> 2009-02-15 22:20:20 Exim configuration error in line 28 of /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp:
>>>   malformed macro definition
>>>       
>
> When you upgraded exim did you let it upgrade the conf file snippets, or
> just some of them - I'd guess that it's a missing part of the config,
> you're getting the mail because it'll try to do a reload as part of
> cron.daily, and that's going to trigger the automatic configuration
> again. See what you get out of update-exim4.conf which should tell you
> more.
>
>   
Thu Feb 19     10:33:06
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westk[@]goshen]:/home/westk:> sudo update-exim4.conf
[sudo] password for westk:


Thu Feb 19     10:33:14
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westk[@]goshen]:/home/westk:> sudo /etc/init.d/exim4 restart
Stopping MTA for restart: exim4_listener.
Restarting MTA: exim4.
ALERT: exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size, mail 
system possibly broken failed!



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