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The error message indicates that exim crashed when attempting to start at some point (run stat /var/log/exim4/paniclog to see when the crash occurred and the log was last modified) - it appears as though cron will continue to send this alert indefinitely. The error notification behavior and a workaround are mentioned in this Please have cron only notify if paniclog has new entries ...

While our Xen platform offers a greater level of control over installed kernel modules, we do not support custom kernel installation at this time. You can download the Xen kernel headers for version of the kernel which we deploy and compile modules against the headers.

See the Installing Kernel Headers at VPSLink guide for instructions to install the Xen kernel headers.

Thank you for the report - I will ensure that our template developers take a look at this issue for future template releases.

We will be installing the 2.6.18-128.7.1.el5 kernel - this is the most recent kernel which we have had the opportunity to test and confirm working for our Xen platform. Our kernel releases tend to run fairly slowly as it is (unfortunately) necessary to ensure that the majority of bugs have been found and any serious bugs have been resolved before the kernel is updated across all of the nodes ...

The error message indicates that exim crashed when attempting to start at some point (run stat /var/log/exim4/paniclog to see when the crash occurred and the log was last modified) - it appears as though cron will continue to send this alert indefinitely. The error notification behavior and a workaround are mentioned in this Please have cron only notify if paniclog has new entries ...