Bug 30288 – sendmail init script dropps queue processing arg

Bug 30288 - sendmail init script dropps queue processing arg

Summary:	sendmail init script dropps queue processing arg

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	sendmail (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.2
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Florian La Roche
QA Contact:	David Lawrence
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Reported:	2001-03-02 01:54 EST by Need Real Name
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:31 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2001-03-12 21:28:44 EST
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Description Need Real Name 2001-03-02 01:54:10 EST

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22enterprise i686)


Note the use of the 'echo' statements in forming the arg string used to
invoke sendmail:

This is what is distributed with RH6.X... the -q arg is lost:

daemon /usr/sbin/sendmail $([ "$DAEMON" = yes ] && echo " -bd ") \
                          $([ -n "$QUEUE" ] && echo -q$QUEUE)


This is my hack which fixes this:

daemon /usr/sbin/sendmail $([ "$DAEMON" = yes ] && echo -n " -bd ") \
                          $([ -n "$QUEUE" ] && echo -n -q$QUEUE)

(who wrote this!)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail start
2. tail /var/log/maillog
3. observe the startup report for sendmail
	

Actual Results:  maillog.4:Jan 22 20:52:21 gateway sendmail[16197]:
starting daemon
(8.9.3): SMTP

Expected Results:  maillog:Feb 22 10:57:19 gateway sendmail[18610]:
starting daemon
(8.9.3): SMTP+queueing@01:00:00

see my description for my quick fix

Comment 1 Florian La Roche 2001-03-07 02:59:33 EST

$ echo $(echo one) $(echo two)
one two
$

What do you get on your 6.2 installation for this? What shell is used as
/bin/sh?

Comment 2 Need Real Name 2001-03-07 18:46:46 EST

[andrewd@gateway andrewd]$ echo $(echo one) $(echo two)
one two

[andrewd@gateway andrewd]$ rpm -qf /bin/sh
bash-1.14.7-22

Comment 3 Need Real Name 2001-03-12 21:28:39 EST

BTW...

echo `echo one` `echo two`

may be a little more standard for command expansion (works with the solaris
/bin/sh where as $(command) doesn't). Gives the same result.

Comment 4 Florian La Roche 2001-07-23 09:23:38 EDT

$() should work fine with any reasonable shell: bash,pdksh,zsh, so I close
this bug.

Florian La Roche

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