Bug 113254
| Summary: | error during exim startup: /etc/init.d/exim: line 37: [: too many arguments | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Ian Kluft <ik-rhbz> |
| Component: | exim | Assignee: | Thomas Woerner <twoerner> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rawhide | ||
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-01-13 12:52:16 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Fixed in rawhide in version exim-4.30-4 or newer. |
Description of problem: During startup of exim, the following error message is displayed: /etc/init.d/exim: line 37: [: too many arguments Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): exim-4.30-3 How reproducible: this happens every time exim starts Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot system or run "/sbin/service exim start" Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: A one-liner diff fixes the problem for me. *** /etc/init.d/exim.orig 2004-01-10 17:49:00.000000000 -0800 --- /etc/init.d/exim 2004-01-10 18:08:33.000000000 -0800 *************** *** 34,40 **** # owned by exim - if owned by someone else we fix it up if [ -f /var/log/exim/main.log ] then ! if [ "exim" != `ls -l /var/log/exim/main.log |cut -b 17-20` ] then chown -R exim.exim /var/log/exim /var/spool/exim fi --- 34,40 ---- # owned by exim - if owned by someone else we fix it up if [ -f /var/log/exim/main.log ] then ! if [ "exim" != "$(ls -l /var/log/exim/main.log |cut -b 15-18)" ] then chown -R exim.exim /var/log/exim /var/spool/exim fi Note: I made two changes on the line: 1. I fixed the character range "cut -b 17-20" to "cut -b 15-18" so that it correctly captures the group name "exim" 2. I changed the back-ticks (`) to a double-quoted (") bash command substitution ( $() ) so that it won't display this error if a space occurs within the string results from 'cut'. A back-tick would still have worked but I used the equivalent $( ) for readability.