Bug#429617: Bug in line 227 of update-exim4.conf

[Marc Haber]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 11:33:12PM +0200, Silvestre Zabala wrote:
> I ran into the same problems, and as I had a modified exim4-conf I
> moved away /etc/exim4 and tried to reinstall exim4-conf to no avail:
> 
> Running update-exim4.conf with bash -x I saw the following:
> 
> [...]
> + UPEX4C_internal_tmp=/tmp/ex4XdyiYF
> + trap 'rm -f /tmp/ex4XdyiYF' EXIT INT TERM
> + gentmpconf
> + rm -f /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp
> + touch /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp
> ++ id -u
> + '[' 0 = 0 ']'
> + chown root:Debian-exim /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp
> + '[' -e /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated ']'
> + chmod 640 /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp
> + '[' -e /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated ']'
> + rm -f /tmp/ex4XdyiYF
> 
> So for me the fix was to insert a
> return 0
> after line 227 in update-exim4.conf.

I still do not understand why the packages work fine on all of my
systems, and I do not like the way you have fixed the issue.

How about:

if [ -e "${UPEX4C_outputfile}" ]; then
  chmod 640 "${UPEX4C_outputfile}"
fi

It is a lot less cryptic anyway.

Greetings
Marc

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