Pkg exim4 users - Oct 2009 - no such file

This happens to me occasionally - you have to look very closely at the 
mail headers to figure out what
actual host the error occurred on.  Go to that host, then to 
/var/log/exim4 and you will see the paniclog
there.  Usually take a look at it, and delete if nothing 
earth-shattering. Usually a network or DNS outage
will cause this blip.

hope that helpz,

Matt


On 10/15/09 5:02 AM, pkg-exim4-users-request at lists.alioth.debian.org
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> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:20:39 -0700 (MST)
> From: Robert Holtzman<holtzm at cox.net>
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> I''m getting the following error message: "exim paniclog
> /var/log/exim4/paniclog on localhost has non-zero size, mail system
> might be broken". Only problem is there is no such file:
>
> [holtzm at localhost]~$ ls -a /var/log/exim4
> .  ..  mainlog
>
> I''m running exim4 4.69-2 on ubuntu 8.04.
>
> Any ideas? Pointers appreciated.
>
>

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Matt Weatherford wrote:
>
> This happens to me occasionally - you have to look very closely at the mail
> headers to figure out what
> actual host the error occurred on.  Go to that host, then to /var/log/exim4
> and you will see the paniclog
> there.  Usually take a look at it, and delete if nothing earth-shattering. 
> Usually a network or DNS outage
> will cause this blip.
That sounds about right as the messages have stopped.

Thanks.

-- 
Bob Holtzman
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  check the price of the beer"