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Auteur: tito
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Aan: dng
Onderwerp: Re: [DNG] exim paniclog
On Mon, 31 May 2021 21:43:54 +0200
Antony Stone <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 manipulating daemon log files.
>
> Hm, why do you say that?
>
> Surely you want exim to open a new log file when it has something new
> to report.
>
> If you do not delete the log file but simply write "nothing" to it in
> order to empty it, won't the daemon keep the current write position
> and then get confused when the file is smaller?
>
>
> Antony.
>

Hi,
wouldn't the daemon simply append to the end of the log file?

Ciao,
Tito