Bug#427690: exim4-base cronjob refers to program 'mail' but has no dependency on it

[Marc Haber]

tags #427690 confirmed pending
thanks

On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 10:30:39PM +0200, Mrten wrote:
> unless package 'mailx' is installed the exims daily report cannot be sent
> 
> kimiko:/etc/cron.weekly# ./exim4-base
> ./exim4-base: line 40: mail: command not found
> 
> line 40 has 'mail' on it:
> 
> sh-3.1# head -40 /etc/cron.daily/exim4-base  |  tail -2
>     eximstats  -nr -bydomain -byemail -byedomain </var/log/exim4/mainlog \
>                 | mail $E4BCD_DAILY_REPORT_TO -s"$(hostname --fqdn) Daily email activity report"
> 
> installing package mailx makes the cronjob run:
> 
> kimiko:/etc/cron.weekly# apt-get install mailx
> Reading package lists... Done
> [...]
> Setting up mailx (8.1.2-0.20050715cvs-1) ...
> 
> 
> sh-3.1# ./exim4-base
> sh-3.1#
> 
> as one has to manually enable the reportx, this is probably minor.

It is nevertheless a good catch. I have added code to the cron job to
catch this error, and exim4-base recommends mailx now.

Greetings
Marc

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