On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 02:54:42PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Marc Haber said: > > On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 01:14:59PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > > > > I manually fixed the syntax error, reload exim, move on. > > > > Mistake here. Rotate panicloc is missing. The paniclog should always > > be empty, and if it's not, that is alarm signal. Upstream docs suggest > > this mode of operation. > > You mean you expect admins to manually do: > rm /var/log/exim4/pancilog.100.gz > mv /var/log/exim4/pancilog.99.gz /var/log/exim4/pancilog.100.gz > mv /var/log/exim4/pancilog.98.gz /var/log/exim4/pancilog.99.gz > ....
One can simply use savelog, or, in a more easy case mv /var/log/exim4/paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog-20061009. > > That's a side effect and cannot be relied on. Additionally, it would > > only send a _single_ e-mail. > > This is also the case when paniclog is greater than 10M in size. I am > arguing that if you handle rotation at all, it should be consistent. > The argument that you want to alert for all eternity, unless the log > file gets too big, doesn't feel consistent to me. Keeping the system up and running is more important than sending out the mail message warning in all cases. > I do to, but that's why I add paniclog to logcheck. I prefer the single > problem, single alert method of handling things. If it's an ongoing > problem that continues to write to paniclog, I want to continue to > be notified. But I really don't want a hundred emails every morning > for a problem I already fixed on all the affected machines. set E4BCD_WATCH_PANICLOG="no" in /etc/default/exim4. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 72739835 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
