Package: exim4-base Version: 4.69-2+b1 Severity: normal I think the logic in the /etc/init.d/exim4 script is incorrect. In the script, there is the following ....
if ! [ -x "/lib/lsb/init-functions" ]; then . /lib/lsb/init-functions else echo "E: /lib/lsb/init-functions not found, lsb-base (>= 3.0-6) needed" exit 1 fi /lib/lsb/init-functions is not executed, does not have the execute permission set and is only 'sourced'. This means the -x test will fail. However, this error is masked by the negation of the test. Essentially, this test is saying that if /lib/lsb/init-functions is not executable, then source it. However, the test could fail i.e. is not executable if the file also does not exist. As the file is being sourced rather than executed, it would probably be better to replace this with if [ -r "/lib/lsb/init-functions" ]; then . /lib/lsb/init-functions else echo "E: /lib/lsb/init-functions not found, lsb-base (>= 3.0-6) needed" exit 1 fi which will check to see if /lib/lsb/init-functions is readable and if it is, will source it, if its not, raise an error. I also wanted to confirm Bug#477194 - Exim4 will fail installation at present because the init script fails to start the exim daemon and it does appear to be related to the escaping of empty argument options i.e. passing '' '' '' representing options that are not set to any specific value and resulting in a failure and message indicating bad command line options. As a result of this, the exim4 and exim4-daemon-* pacakges fail to install correctly. The quick fix is to just remove the empty arguements from the call to start_stop_daemon in the init script. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages exim4-base depends on: ii adduser 3.107 add and remove users and groups ii cron 3.0pl1-104 management of regular background p ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.21 Debian configuration management sy ii exim4-config [exim4-config-2] 4.69-2 configuration for the Exim MTA (v4 ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdb4.6 4.6.21-7 Berkeley v4.6 Database Libraries [ ii lsb-base 3.2-10 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii netbase 4.32 Basic TCP/IP networking system Versions of packages exim4-base recommends: ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20071201cvs-2 A simple mail user agent ii mailx 1:20071201-2 Transitional package for mailx ren ii psmisc 22.6-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy -- debconf information: exim4/purge_spool: false exim4-base/drec: -- Tim Cross Information Technology Directorate University of New England Phone: +61 2 6773 3210 Mobile: 0428 212217 Fax: +61 2 6773 3424 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.une.edu.au/itd --- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html "Social Engineering - because there is no patch for human stupidity." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
