mail-mta/exim-4.80 is installed, but /etc/init.d/exim service is not started. During rotation routine logrotate sends following error message: > * exim: cannot `reload' as it has not been started > error: error running shared postrotate script for '/var/log/exim/exim*.log ' Apparently logrotate produces redundant output if exim service is not used. Problem line in provided logrotate script (/usr/portage/mail-mta/exim/files/exim.logrotate): /etc/init.d/exim reload > /dev/null Proposed change to this line: /etc/init.d/exim reload > /dev/null 2>&1 || true Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install mail-mta/exim-4.80, app-admin/logrotate installed. 2. Have /etc/init.d/exim service not started. 3. Make logrotate perform rotation on exim logs (/var/log/exim/exim_*.log). Actual Results: Likely this very exim has delivered the error message. If exim is not configured for actually sending mail (e.g. no /etc/exim/exim.conf file), /root/dead.letter file is created with the error message. Expected Results: No mail with logrotate error message. Work-around: use proposed fix on /etc/logrotate.d/exim file.
Applied without revbump, since it IMO has minimal impact. Thanks!
