[Slackbuilds-users] Postfix-2.11.3 test warning message

Mario Preksavec mario at slackware.hr
Fri Jan 9 02:33:27 UTC 2015


On 01/09/2015 01:55 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jan 2015, Mario Preksavec wrote:
>
>> What was the version that you upgraded from? None of my systems showed
>> this error on minor updates and major version upgrades.
>
> Mario,
>
>    Upgraded from 2.11.2.
>
>> Line 504 reads:
>>
>>                test -r $path -a "$type" != "d" && obsolete="$obsolete
>> $path"
>>
>> Best guess where it's coming from is that unquoted $path variable.
>
>    Bingo! I quoted $path and restarted postfix and the warning went away.
>
>    It's interesting that you have the same line in your version as I had in
> mine, but did not see the warning when postfix started.
>
> Thanks very much,
>
> Rich

You are very welcome, although it would probably make more sense to 
clean up paths in configuration files and avoid post-install file 
hackery... :-)

-- 
Mario


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