Bug#395448: exim4-base: cron script uses "echo -e", which is not recognized by dash

[Marc Haber]

tags #395448 confirmed
thanks

On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 08:05:25PM -0500, Ming Hua wrote:
> In the /etc/cron.daily/exim4-base script, it uses
>     echo -e "Subject: exim paniclog...\nTo: root\n..."
> to send a mail to root about non-empty paniclog.
> 
> However this seems to only have desired result in bash.  After I set my
> /bin/sh to dash, I am getting mails about paniclog with empty subject,
> but "-e Subject: exim paniclog on ..." in the mail body.  Testing with
> dash confirms that dash doesn't recognize the "-e" option, and just echo
> it literally.

Is it acceptable for you to explicitly call /bin/echo instead of the
echo builtin?

Greetings
Marc

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