On 9 Jan 2023, at 12:05, Jeremy Harris via Exim-users <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> It wouldn't be an OpenSSL change.  Exim (since 4.95) on both Linux
> and FreeBSD platforms[*] sets a watch on the relevant directories and files,
> and (supposedly) reloads certs when they change.  Best guess is that
> this mechanism failed for some reasons.

Could it be that the path - a symlink to a symlink to a file - wasn't fully 
dereferenced, so from Exim's perspective the file hadn't changed? ISTR that 
inotofy used to (many years ago), but that was changed somwhere in the kernel 
2.x days.

[searches...]

Perhaps. Although I did find a bug (2909) and the commit to fix it (a1ec98d). 
If I'm reading the Fedora changelog properly, that commit is not in the RPM the 
OP is running because it post-dates the 4.96 release. Although it's unclear if 
it'll fix the issue cleanly, because there are two symlinks before the actual 
file!

Graeme
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