Bug#498999: Every Morning's Email

Kent West westk at acu.edu
Thu Feb 19 16:35:19 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     10:34:51
-------------
westk[@]goshen]:/home/westk:> ls -lh /etc/exim4/
total 80K
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root        1.0K 2007-04-16 10:19 conf.d
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root         75K 2008-09-30 13:27 exim4.conf.template
-rw-r----- 1 root Debian-exim  204 2007-01-20 03:46 passwd.client
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root        1.1K 2009-02-15 22:20 update-exim4.conf.conf




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