Hi folks I was updating one of my boxes running sid, and as part of the dependancies for new packages it pulled down exim. The problem was on configuration:
Setting up exim (3.36-1) ... syntax error at /usr/sbin/eximconfig line 955, near "" )" (Might be a runaway multi-line "" string starting on line 948) Execution of /usr/sbin/eximconfig aborted due to compilation errors. dpkg: error processing exim (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255 Errors were encountered while processing: exim Any attempt at an apt-get dist-upgrade after that resulted in the same error, as did a dpkg --configure exim. I have exim installed on my other machines (though configured not to do anything as yet) and hadn't seen the problem there, and the only difference is the first machine hadn't had a /etc/exim/exim.conf file written yet. Copying that across, followed by dpkg --configure exim, sorted out the problem. I'm assuming this is a temporary glitch caused by the perl 5.8 upgrade as /usr/sbin/eximconfig is a perl script (and gives the same result on other boxes if I run /usr/sbin/eximconfig). As such I don't know if it warrants a bug report (can't see similar filed against exim at present) or if I should now ignore it as it currently 'works for me'. Regards, Martin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dbg400.net /"\ DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities - AS/400 / iSeries Open \ / Source free test environment tools and others (file/spool/misc) X Debian GNU/Linux | ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML mail & news / \ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
