Package: exim4-base Version: 4.72-6+squeeze2 Severity: normal Tags: patch
Sending of daily reports from eximstats via setting E4BCD_DAILY_REPORT_TO in /etc/default/exim4 fails. Error message is root@henry:~# /etc/cron.daily/exim4-base exim abandoned: unknown, malformed, or incomplete option -sXXX In /etc/cron.daily/exim4-base:46 "mail" is used to send the mail, in my case: root@henry:~# ls -l /usr/bin/mail lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 14. Feb 14:27 /usr/bin/mail -> /etc/alternatives/mail root@henry:~# ls -l /etc/alternatives/mail lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 14. Feb 14:27 /etc/alternatives/mail -> /usr/bin/heirloom-mailx Switching the order of the used two parameters fixes the problem: root@henry:/etc/cron.daily# diff exim4-base exim4-base.original 46c46 < | mail -s"$(hostname --fqdn) Daily e-mail activity report" $E4BCD_DAILY_REPORT_TO --- > | mail $E4BCD_DAILY_REPORT_TO -s"$(hostname --fqdn) Daily > e-mail activity report" 49c49 < | mail -s"$(hostname --fqdn) Daily e-mail activity report" $E4BCD_DAILY_REPORT_TO --- > | mail $E4BCD_DAILY_REPORT_TO -s"$(hostname --fqdn) Daily > e-mail activity report" -- Package-specific info: Exim version 4.72 #1 built 12-May-2011 18:50:41 Copyright (c) University of Cambridge, 1995 - 2007 Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 4.8.30: (April 9, 2010) Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS move_frozen_messages DKIM Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dnsdb dsearch nis nis0 passwd Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp Fixed never_users: 0 Size of off_t: 8 GnuTLS compile-time version: 2.8.6 GnuTLS runtime version: 2.8.6 Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.1 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages exim4-base depends on: ii adduser 3.112+nmu2 add and remove users and groups ii cron 3.0pl1-116 process scheduling daemon ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36.1 Debian configuration management sy ii exim4-config [exim4-con 4.72-6+squeeze2 configuration for the Exim MTA (v4 ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libdb4.8 4.8.30-2 Berkeley v4.8 Database Libraries [ ii lsb-base 3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii netbase 4.45 Basic TCP/IP networking system Versions of packages exim4-base recommends: ii heirloom-mailx [mailx] 12.4-2 feature-rich BSD mail(1) ii perl-modules 5.10.1-17 Core Perl modules ii psmisc 22.11-1 utilities that use the proc file s Versions of packages exim4-base suggests: pn exim4-doc-html | exim4 <none> (no description available) pn eximon4 <none> (no description available) ii file 5.04-5 Determines file type using "magic" ii mutt [mail-reader] 1.5.20-9+squeeze1 text-based mailreader supporting M ii openssl 0.9.8o-4squeeze1 Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary a pn spf-tools-perl <none> (no description available) pn swaks <none> (no description available) -- debconf information excluded
46c46 < | mail -s"$(hostname --fqdn) Daily e-mail activity report" $E4BCD_DAILY_REPORT_TO --- > | mail $E4BCD_DAILY_REPORT_TO -s"$(hostname --fqdn) Daily > e-mail activity report" 49c49 < | mail -s"$(hostname --fqdn) Daily e-mail activity report" $E4BCD_DAILY_REPORT_TO --- > | mail $E4BCD_DAILY_REPORT_TO -s"$(hostname --fqdn) Daily > e-mail activity report"
