[exim-dev] [Bug 728] SMTP listener keeping log file open for…

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Old-Topics: [exim-dev] [Bug 728] New: SMTP listener keeping log file open for days
Subject: [exim-dev] [Bug 728] SMTP listener keeping log file open for days
https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728

--- Comment #19 from Heiko Schlittermann <hs@???> ---
(In reply to Andreas Pflug from comment #15)
> Hm, there's only the main process holding that file open, which is handling
> >10k Mails per day, logging every one of them...
>
> OTOH, I usually do NOT see open mainlogs, so the standard logfile procedure
> seems to close more or less directly after writing.


As Jeremy wrote, the vast amount of logging (if not all in your case) is done
by forked/exec'd processes, their open files are closed as soon as they die.

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Heiko

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