Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: > I am getting e-mails like the one below all the time, now. I had this > problem once before and I think that all I had to do was clear the > paniclog with '> paniclog', but that does not seem to be working, > now. I cleared it this morning, and when I just checked it was > filling up again. It looks like I get three lines every half hour. > This is preventing me from receiving e-mails sent by a cron job that > runs a backup script. Any ideas on how to get rid of this and not > have it come back would be greatly appreciated. > > Marc > > e-mail showing paniclog: > > exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog on quixote.home has non-zero > size, mail system might be broken. Up to 10 lines are quoted below. > > 2021-11-30 06:00:19 1momA3-00054k-DE ==m...@quixote.home R=local_user > T=mail_spool defer (-1): Tainted '/var/mail/marc' (file or directory > name for mail_spool transport) not permitted > 2021-11-30 06:30:19 1mrJnB-00026m-53 ==m...@quixote.home R=local_user > T=mail_spool defer (-1): Tainted '/var/mail/marc' (file or directory > name for mail_spool transport) not permitted > 2021-11-30 06:30:20 1mmEkA-00009l-Jr ==m...@quixote.home R=local_user > T=mail_spool defer (-1): Tainted '/var/mail/marc' (file or directory > name for mail_spool transport) not permitted > 2021-11-30 06:30:20 1momA3-00054k-DE ==m...@quixote.home R=local_user > T=mail_spool defer (-1): Tainted '/var/mail/marc' (file or directory > name for mail_spool transport) not permitted > 2021-11-30 07:00:19 1mrJnB-00026m-53 ==m...@quixote.home R=local_user > T=mail_spool defer (-1): Tainted '/var/mail/marc' (file or directory > name for mail_spool transport) not permitted > 2021-11-30 07:00:19 1mmEkA-00009l-Jr ==m...@quixote.home R=local_user > T=mail_spool defer (-1): Tainted '/var/mail/marc' (file or directory > name for mail_spool transport) not permitted > 2021-11-30 07:00:19 1momA3-00054k-DE ==m...@quixote.home R=local_user > T=mail_spool defer (-1): Tainted '/var/mail/marc' (file or directory > name for mail_spool transport) not permitted > 2021-11-30 07:30:19 1mrJnB-00026m-53 ==m...@quixote.home R=local_user > T=mail_spool defer (-1): Tainted '/var/mail/marc' (file or directory > name for mail_spool transport) not permitted > 2021-11-30 07:30:20 1mmEkA-00009l-Jr ==m...@quixote.home R=local_user > T=mail_spool defer (-1): Tainted '/var/mail/marc' (file or directory > name for mail_spool transport) not permitted > 2021-11-30 07:30:20 1momA3-00054k-DE ==m...@quixote.home R=local_user > T=mail_spool defer (-1): Tainted '/var/mail/marc' (file or directory > name for mail_spool transport) not permitted > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Does this help? A dist-upgrade, thus upgrading exim, could cause breakage, requiring configuration update. I use postfix instead of exim, and don't know much about exim, just found this following link on a search. https://lists.archive.carbon60.com/exim/users/117441 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng