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

Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez, le dim. 16 nov. 2025 19:47:04 +0100, a ecrit:
> El Sun, 16 Nov 2025 13:23:04 +0100
> Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> escribió:
> > 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
> > 
> 
> Hi, Samuel, and thanks:
> 
> $ telnet localhost 25
> Trying ::1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 debian ESMTP Exim 4.99 Sun, 16 Nov 2025 19:31:00 +0100
> ^]
> 
> As you can see, 'telnet' says port 25 is available for connect,
> however, every time service exim4 is stopped and/or started add a new
> line 
> daemon_notifier_socket bind: Address already in use
> to the /var/log/exim4/paniclog file . I'm baffled by this.

Probably need to check how exim is getting started, whether the start
script actually correctly finds out the pid, etc.

Samuel