I take full responsibility on this one, and realize it seems to be a common mistake. For as common as it is, I cant seem to google up what I actually need to *do* to fix it. I am sure its just something simple that I am missing. Yesterday I ran an apt-get which seems to have gone totally wrong (it had been a long time since that particular server had been updated). Now apt-get wont work either - it keeps trying to configure exim4 and says its broken. I should note that I took over this system from someone else who did the original configuration. I have never used Exim4 before, or Debian in any extensive way (I have used Ubuntu quite a bit, but never as a mail server - I am usually a database guy). I have read through the docs as much as I could in the few hours that this has been screwed up, but I am really at a loss. I know enough to say that this is using the split configuration method. I really dont know what else to do or where to turn to. I may be forced to start migrating the mail to another box, but I really dont have time to do that unless there is just no hope of resurrecting this box. Here is the error message that I get: -------------------------- Starting MTA:DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF found in exim configuration. This is most probably caused by you upgrading to exim4 4.67-3 or later without accepting the suggested conffile changes. Please read /usr/share/doc/exim4-config/NEWS.Debian.gz for 4.67-2 and 4.67-4 2008-04-08 12:04:46 Exim configuration error in line 27 of /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp: malformed macro definition Invalid new configfile /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp, not installing /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp to /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated --------------------------- Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to offer me. Tony Scharf
On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 14:29 -0500, Tony Scharf wrote: ...> > Here is the error message that I get: > -------------------------- > Starting MTA:DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF found in exim configuration. This > is most probably > caused by you upgrading to exim4 4.67-3 or later without accepting the > suggested conffile changes. Please read > /usr/share/doc/exim4-config/NEWS.Debian.gz for 4.67-2 and 4.67-4I suggest taking that advice. There were some changes in the config file format, and you''ll need to adjust, if you have customizations you want to preserve. Otherwise, you could just drop in a new configuration from exim4-config. It sounds as if you have the latter installed already. Another option would be to go back down (e.g., the the last Debian stable version) to something that works with your old config. If the previous setup was exim3, you''ve got a bigger adjustment. /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian is the place to start for the Debian package. However, it assumes you are familiar with email and exim4. Ross Boylan