Bug#462119: /etc/cron.daily/exim4-base error

[Robert E. Riding]

Package: exim4-base
Version: 4.68-2
Severity: minor

anacron reports the following error, which occurs also
when /etc/cron.daily/exim4-base is run alone:

dusty:/etc/cron.daily# ./exim4-base
start-stop-daemon: Unable to set initgroups() with gid 102 (Operation not permitted)
start-stop-daemon: Unable to set initgroups() with gid 102 (Operation not permitted)
dusty:/etc/cron.daily#


-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.68 #1 built 01-Nov-2007 19:21:36
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2006
Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 4.6.21: (September 27, 2007)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS move_frozen_messages
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
Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
# /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
#
# Edit this file and /etc/mailname by hand and execute update-exim4.conf
# yourself or use 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'
#
# Please note that this is _not_ a dpkg-conffile and that automatic changes
# to this file might happen. The code handling this will honor your local
# changes, so this is usually fine, but will break local schemes that mess
# around with multiple versions of the file.
#
# update-exim4.conf uses this file to determine variable values to replace
# the DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF strings in the configuration template files.
#
# Most settings found in here do have corresponding questions in the
# Debconf configuration, but not all of them.
#
# This is a Debian specific file

dc_eximconfig_configtype='smarthost'
dc_other_hostnames=''
dc_local_interfaces=''
dc_readhost='xmission.com'
dc_relay_domains=''
dc_minimaldns='false'
dc_relay_nets='192.168.0.0/24'
dc_smarthost='mail.xmission.com'
CFILEMODE='644'
dc_use_split_config='false'
dc_hide_mailname='true'
dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
dc_localdelivery='mail_spool'
mailname:dusty.savageroad.com

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23.14 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages exim4-base depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.105      add and remove users and groups
ii  cron                          3.0pl1-103 management of regular background p
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.18     Debian configuration management sy
ii  exim4-config [exim4-config-2] 4.68-2     configuration for the Exim MTA (v4
ii  libc6                         2.7-6      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdb4.6                      4.6.21-5   Berkeley v4.6 Database Libraries [
ii  lsb-base                      3.1-24     Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  netbase                       4.30       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:
  exim4/move_exim3_spool: false