On Fri, 2 May 2008, Marc Haber wrote:
>
> 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)
Is that pid actually the parent listening process? Is there proof that
that log file was rotated days ago?
> 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?
Well the code in the daemon is careful to close the logs so I can't see
how this can happen.
Tony.
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