Bug#988304: exim4: rsyslog log files not getting any new info

2021-05-10 Thread GSR 
Hi,
ametz...@bebt.de (2021-05-10 at 1938.37 +0200):
> what log_file_path setting are you using? I am aware that 
> log_file_path = :syslog
> does not duplicate the entries to syslog but only logs to /var/log/exim4
> (See https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2733#c5 and later.)

Same config. To be exact, these are the config lines about syslog,
which have worked for years (log msgs once to syslog without time as
it will be added by logger and log to own files+syslog):
---8<---
syslog_duplication = false
syslog_timestamp = false
log_file_path = :syslog
--->8---
I just checked the documentation at exim.org and it seems their
purpose has not changed.

I see in the bugreport that explicit "/var/log/exim4/%slog : syslog"
works, but not ":syslog". So Debian 988304 is upstream 2733#c3.

Are we sure exim4 contacts rsyslog at all? Got the source, and all
those "else" & "if" without {} in src/log.c write_syslog() make me
doubt the compiler and humans agree what the source means.

Cheers,
GSR

Bug#988304: exim4: rsyslog log files not getting any new info

2021-05-10 Thread Andreas Metzler 
On 2021-05-10 GSR  wrote:
> Package: exim4
> Version: 4.94.2-2
> Severity: normal

> After updating from 4.94.2-1 any info stopped appearing in rsyslog
> (8.2102.0-2) files like /var/log/mail.log. Mail can be sent and
> received, and /var/log/exim4/mainlog gets new lines. So it seems to be
> something about talking with syslog.

Hello,

what log_file_path setting are you using? I am aware that 
log_file_path = :syslog
does not duplicate the entries to syslog but only logs to /var/log/exim4
(See https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2733#c5 and later.)

cu Andreas
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Bug#988304: exim4: rsyslog log files not getting any new info

2021-05-09 Thread GSR 
Package: exim4
Version: 4.94.2-2
Severity: normal

After updating from 4.94.2-1 any info stopped appearing in rsyslog
(8.2102.0-2) files like /var/log/mail.log. Mail can be sent and
received, and /var/log/exim4/mainlog gets new lines. So it seems to be
something about talking with syslog.

Cheers,
GSR
 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages exim4 depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.76
ii  exim4-base 4.94.2-2
ii  exim4-daemon-light 4.94.2-2

exim4 recommends no packages.

exim4 suggests no packages.