Wietse Venema:
> Rich Shepard:
> > When upgrading to -2.11.4 (on Slackware-14.1), a message is displayed
> > that
> > line 504 in /usr/libexec/postfix/post-install has too many arguments. Adding
> > double quotes to $path fixes this problem.
>
> Maintainers sometimes make "improvements" and that can change line
> numbers. Just to be sure we are talking about the same thing, are
> you referring to the same line 504 that I have here:
>
> 501 # Flag obsolete objects. XXX Solaris 2..9 does not have "test -e".
> 502 if [ -n "$obsolete_flag" ]
> 503 then
> 504 test -r $path -a "$type" != "d" && obsolete="$obsolete $path"
> 505 continue;
> 506 else
> 507 keep_list="$keep_list $path"
> 508 fi
>
> What was the 100% exact text of the error message?
I can sort-of reproduce such an error with a test script:
$ cat -n x.sh
1 #!/bin/sh
2
3 path="foo bar"
4 echo blah
5 test -r $path -a "x" != "y" && echo foobar
$ sh x.sh
blah
x.sh: line 5: test: too many arguments
In post-install. the path is evaluated thusly:
480 # Expand $name, and canonicalize null fields.
481 for name in path owner group flags
482 do
483 eval junk=\${$name}
484 case $junk in
485 [$]*) eval $name=$junk;;
486 -) eval $name=;;
487 *) ;;
488 esac
489 done
This suggests that you have a space in a pathname of some Postfix
configuration pathname parameters such as queue_directory,
command_directory, sendmail_path, and so on.
Wietse
