Re: [Exim] msglog files not being deleted

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Author: Ollie Cook
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To: Stanier, Alan M
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] msglog files not being deleted
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 11:29:26AM -0000, Stanier, Alan M wrote:
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> Hi
>
> We are running Exim 4-24 under RedHat 9
>
> I came to work this morning to find that our main incoming server had
> run out of diskspace over the
> weekend. Investigating, I found that the msglog files had not been
> deleted since we upgraded to
> 4-24.
>
> preserve_message_logs is NOT set in our configuration files.
>
> Has anyone else seen this behaviour? I have now set message_logs to
> false, but I am curious
> as to what I might have got wrong.


Failure to unlink a msglog file causes Exim to panic. Are there any indications
of such panics in your main or panic logs?

Yours,

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Oliver Cook    Systems Administrator, Claranet UK
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