Re: [DNG] exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size

2021-12-02 Thread Pontus Goffe via Dng
Den 2021-12-02 kl. 09:16, skrev Marc Shapiro via Dng: No luck.  I rebooted and got the paniclog error during the boot. After booting, I stopped exim4, deleted the paniclog, and restarted exim4.  It created a paniclog containing the following: Had you also executed exim4 -qff -v I think

Re: [DNG] exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size

2021-12-02 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
On 12/1/21 23:56, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 12/1/21 10:10, Ludovic Bellière via Dng wrote: If you do not need your mail system to talk to the world, then you should replace exim with something that is a lot simpler to use and configure. I would suggest msmtp (https://marlam.de/msmtp/) as its

Re: [DNG] exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size

2021-12-01 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
On 12/1/21 10:10, Ludovic Bellière via Dng wrote: If you do not need your mail system to talk to the world, then you should replace exim with something that is a lot simpler to use and configure. I would suggest msmtp (https://marlam.de/msmtp/) as its configuration is a lot more simpler to

Re: [DNG] exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size

2021-12-01 Thread Ludovic Bellière via Dng
If you do not need your mail system to talk to the world, then you should replace exim with something that is a lot simpler to use and configure. I would suggest msmtp (https://marlam.de/msmtp/) as its configuration is a lot more simpler to the neophyte. If you want to keep exim4, I would then

Re: [DNG] exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size

2021-12-01 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
This is very likely the problem, as I now have version 4.94.2-7 installed.  I know virtually nothing, however, about how MTAs do their work.  Where and how do I make these config changes.  I use Thunderbird for mail coming from outside the local network.  Exim is only used for local transport

Re: [DNG] exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size

2021-11-30 Thread Ludovic Bellière via Dng
On Tue, 30 Nov 2021, 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

Re: [DNG] exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size

2021-11-30 Thread tempforever
Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: > 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'

Re: [DNG] exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size

2021-11-30 Thread tempforever
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

Re: [DNG] exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size

2021-11-30 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
This is what is in /var/log/exim4. As you can see, thae paniclog still has the same ownership and rights as everything else in the directory. Marc root@quixote:/var/log/exim4# ls total 88 -rw-r- 1 Debian-exim adm 10728 Nov 30 15:13 mainlog -rw-r- 1 Debian-exim adm 31961 Nov 30 07:53

Re: [DNG] exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size

2021-11-30 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
root@quixote:/usr/local/bin# ls -al /var/mail/ total 396 drwxrwsr-x  2 root mail   4096 Nov 30 07:59 . drwxr-xr-x 13 root root   4096 Dec  3  2020 .. -rw-rw  1 marc mail 136846 Nov 30 07:53 marc -rw-r--r--  1 marc mail   9864 Nov 30 15:15 marc.msf -rw-r--r--  1 marc mail 25 Nov 25 23:36

Re: [DNG] exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size

2021-11-30 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 01-12-2021 00:00, 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

Re: [DNG] exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size

2021-11-30 Thread Antony Stone
On Wednesday 01 December 2021 at 00:00:00, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: > I am getting e-mails like the one below all the time, now. > 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

Re: [DNG] exim paniclog

2021-06-01 Thread Eric Pozharski
On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 09:10:38AM +1000, wirelessduck--- via Dng wrote: >> On 1 Jun 2021, at 05:26, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: >> /var/log/exim4/paniclog on quixote.home has non-zero size, mail >> system might be broken. The last 10 lines are quoted below. >> >> 2021-05-29 19:35:47 daemon:

Re: [DNG] exim paniclog

2021-05-31 Thread wirelessduck--- via Dng
> On 1 Jun 2021, at 05:26, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: > > I received this e-mail yesterday, and again today: > > - > exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog on quixote.home has non-zero size, mail > system might be broken. The last 10 lines are quoted

Re: [DNG] exim paniclog

2021-05-31 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
On 5/31/21 1:10 PM, g4sra via Dng wrote: No, don't delete it, empty it, this should be the standard practice when manually manipulating daemon log files. I have emptied the paniclog, per you prior directions. Thanks. ___ Dng mailing list

Re: [DNG] exim paniclog

2021-05-31 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
On 5/31/21 12:36 PM, Antony Stone wrote: On Monday 31 May 2021 at 21:25:18, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: I couldn't even switch to a terminal where I could kill Firefox. I finally had to simply power down the system. (How I hate doing that!) Hint for the future - if you have sshd running on

Re: [DNG] exim paniclog

2021-05-31 Thread g4sra via Dng
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, May 31, 2021 8:43 PM, Antony Stone wrote: > On Monday 31 May 2021 at 21:37:30, g4sra via Dng wrote: > > > > Is deleting the paniclog the proper way to stop receiving these e-mails? > > > > No, don't delete it, empty it, this should be the standard

Re: [DNG] exim paniclog

2021-05-31 Thread tito via Dng
On Mon, 31 May 2021 21:43:54 +0200 Antony Stone wrote: > On Monday 31 May 2021 at 21:37:30, g4sra via Dng wrote: > > > > Is deleting the paniclog the proper way to stop receiving these > > > e-mails? > > > > No, don't delete it, empty it, this should be the standard practice > > when manually

Re: [DNG] exim paniclog

2021-05-31 Thread Antony Stone
On Monday 31 May 2021 at 21:37:30, g4sra via Dng wrote: > > Is deleting the paniclog the proper way to stop receiving these e-mails? > > No, don't delete it, empty it, this should be the standard practice when > manually manipulating daemon log files. Hm, why do you say that? Surely you want

Re: [DNG] exim paniclog

2021-05-31 Thread g4sra via Dng
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, May 31, 2021 8:25 PM, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: > I received this e-mail yesterday, and again today: > > --- > > exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog on quixote.home has non-zero size, mail >

Re: [DNG] exim paniclog

2021-05-31 Thread Antony Stone
On Monday 31 May 2021 at 21:25:18, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: > I received this e-mail yesterday, and again today: > > - > exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog on quixote.home has non-zero size, > mail system might be broken. The last 10 lines are quoted