Re: File /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size

Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez, le dim. 16 nov. 2025 12:26:48 +0100, a ecrit:
> El Sat, 15 Nov 2025 21:49:39 +0100
> Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> escribió:
> > Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez, le sam. 15 nov. 2025 21:30:42 +0100, a
> > ecrit:
> > > $ sudo service exim4 restart
> > > Stopping MTA for restart: exim4_listener.
> > > Restarting MTA: exim4.
> > > ALERT: exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size, mail
> > > system possibly broke
> > > $
> > > 
> > > It's possible to avoid this alert?. Because every time i delete the
> > > file
> > > /var/log/exim4/paniclog is re-created very soon, in the next time
> > > the service exim4 is up. Why happen this?.  
> > 
> > You need to look at its content to see what is getting from.
> 
> Yesterday the file /var/log/exim4/paniclog was full of messages, but i
> did a "truncate" over it for let it empty, today, after boot the
> system, this is the content:
> 
> 2025-11-16 12:04:16 daemon_notifier_socket bind: Address already in use

So somehow you have something already listening on port 25 or such.

Samuel