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Re: pipe prediction wrong... solved, but makes no sense
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 01:18:23PM -0500, Ambrose Li wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have traced the "pipe prediction wrong" to the
> following code in aliases.cf:
>
> a=$(echo -- "$a" | \
> listaddresses -E "root" \
> -e "root" \
> -c "$user file expansion" | \
> maprrouter $nattr "$user" "$host" "$plustail" "$domain")
>
> When I checked to see what "listaddresses" is, I got
>
> z# type listaddresses
> listaddresses not found
> z#
Ah.. You did upgrade your existing system "in place" ?
Did you run "$MAILBIN/post-install -MD5" command ?
That system will not overwrite $MAILSHARE/cf/ files, if they have
now different checksum, than what the original checksum was -- e.g.
if you had changed the file...
> On a functional ZMailer (2.99.56pre1), however, I get
>
> z# type listaddresses
> listaddresses is a shell builtin
> z#
>
> Now, in the ChangeLog I read
>
> Disabled former (now unused) "listaddresses" function,
> which does a small part of the job...
>
> which makes the situation even more mysterious, since apparently
> 2.99.56 shipped a mismatched pair of router and router scripts,
> and should not have been working; it should have been broken all
> along, but somehow it has been working just fine for the past
> few months :-/
>
> (It actually seems to have been semi-broken, since there were
> > 300 deferred mails in the router directory, but it was never
> so broken that mail delivery completely stopped, until yesterday.)
Perhaps it should. NOISILY!
Hmm..
> Knowing this new information, I replaced the router binary with
> the one from 2.99.56pre1, and, voila, ZMailer works again. (But
> this whole thing still doesn't make any sense to me...)
It is beginning to make sense to me.
- Actively used scripts are still from 2.99.56pre1
- Binary was new..
--
/Matti Aarnio <mea@nic.funet.fi>
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