Some help with exim linux heads

[babs]

We have exim running on our debian (sarge) box here, and I'd noticed that it was making Gigs of logs which was killing the space. I can manually delete the logs (although rm doesn't like the sheer number of files so i have to pass an ls thru xargs and do it that way). I've been reading the exim docs, and it seems there is a flag 'message_logs' which I can set to false, but I'm stumped as to how to do it. I'm presuming it's a makefile change (bit late now) but I wanted to see if there was another way to do it than rebuilding it.

Any ideas?

[kernow]

Yo

I've never used exim before, but I'm unemployed and have nothing to do, hence I googled for a bit and found these snippets.


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Just disable the logging:

Add this line to your /etc/exim.conf (Use the editor in WHM or Cpanel will overwrite your additions during updates)

message_logs = false

Restart exim: /etc/init.d/exim restart
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I also found this, changing the perms would 'bodge' it too

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When you change the permission of /var/spool/exim/msglog directory to 0 the only message you see in your exmin_mainlog is "cannot write to directory" this way, server load goes down a bit.

I did it before and it worked.

Do it at your own risk.
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hope this helps, if so, thanks for curing my boredom for a bit

[babs]

ahh, I searched for it in exim.conf and couldn't find it, ol' spazzy head here didn't think of adding it.

Cheers.

[babs]

Actuallly scratch that, I can't find where to put it in the .conf file. It seems to be fussy as to where it goes in.