Bug#279205: /etc/cron.daily/exim4-base return error 1 on exit

[Antonio Biasio]

Package: exim4-base
Version: 4.34-6
Severity: normal


When script exim4-base on cron.daily run, if the dir /var/spool/exim4/db
is empty this scripts return error 1 and cron return mail with error.

-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.34 #1 built 11-Sep-2004 12:26:50
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2004
Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 3.2.9: (May 26, 2004)
Support for: iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz 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
Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=it_IT@euro, LC_CTYPE=it_IT@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages exim4-base depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.59         Add and remove users and groups
ii  cron                        3.0pl1-86    management of regular background p
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.4.39       Debian configuration management sy
ii  exim4-config [exim4-config- 4.34-6       Debian configuration for exim4
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libdb3                      3.2.9-20     Berkeley v3 Database Libraries [ru
ii  netbase                     4.19         Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii  passwd                      1:4.0.3-30.2 Change and administer password and

-- debconf information:
  exim4/purge_spool: false
  exim4/move_exim3_spool: false