I created a new Debian 4 configuration profile, and everything's working fine except that the installed-by-default exim3 package doesn't create /var/log/exim/mainlog. As a result, /var/log/mail.* are spammed with error messages.

Touching the logfile works, and upgrading to the recommended version 4 of exim creates /var/log/exim4/mainlog anyway, so it's not really a problem.

However, what caused this to begin with? My own newbieness, or a linode/Debian configuration/packaging error?

Thanks!

P.S. /etc/ssh/moduli was also missing and causing warning log messages. `dpkg -S moduli` shows that openssh-client should have installed it.

Does the Debian etch image default to exim3? I really thought the default was exim4 at this point. Even sarge had exim4.

exim 3.36-18.2 according to the fresh install I have just done.

*bump*
i just noticed on an image i deployed that moduli is still missing.. Any ideas why or how to fix it?

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..how come

aptitude reinstall openssh-client

didn't make /etc/ssh/moduli appear?

The /etc/ssh/moduli file is a conffile of the openssh-client package. Dpkg doesn't overwrite changes to conffiles, including removals. You can either purge (not just remove) and re-install openssh-client, or grab a copy from the source package.

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