Hi,
one Debian exim user reports (see
http://bugs.debian.org/476958) that
his exim SMTP listener process (the one running with -bd -q30m) keeps
/var/log/exim/mainlog open for days after log rotation:
|# ps auxww | grep [4]349
|102 4349 0.0 0.2 11756 2884 ? Ss Apr26 0:01 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
|# lsof -p 4349
|COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
|[snippage]
|exim4 4349 Debian-exim 6w REG 3,5 184728 128 /var/log/exim4/mainlog.1 (deleted)
Since Debian rotates mainlog daily, this means that the file wasn't
closed for at least more than 24 hours, after /var/log/exim4/mainlog
was rotated to /var/log/exim4/mainlog.1 and, the day later, was
compressed to /var/log/exim4/mainlog.2.gz and deleted.
I have never seen this happen on any of my own systems, and Debian has
been shipping this setup of exim 4.63 as part of our default install
in the stable distribution for more than a year.
I therefore strongly suspect that this is a local issue on the system
of the bug reporter, but since exim is documented to close the log
immediately after writing to it, which situation could lead to the log
kept open for this excessive amount of time?
Greetings
Marc
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