Bug 48897 - configuration file parse error on comments
Summary: configuration file parse error on comments
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: pump
Version: 6.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Eido Inoue
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-07-12 13:27 UTC by Roel van Meer
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:34 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-03-11 23:20:17 UTC
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Description Roel van Meer 2001-07-12 13:27:20 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.18 i686)

Description of problem:
If any comments are included in the configuration file (starting with a
hash(#)), pump exits with error code 1 and the following message:

error parsing config file at line 1: unrecognized directive #

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. edit /etc/pump.conf, put in a line starting with a hash (#)
2. execute: pump -i eth0
	

Actual Results:  pump exits with error code 1 and the following message:

error parsing config file at line 1: unrecognized directive #

Expected Results:  No output, interface should have got an ip address from
dhcp server.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Eido Inoue 2001-10-29 16:20:33 UTC 
That sucks indeed. Pump's config parser should at least be able to grok
comments. Accepting.
Comment 2 Eido Inoue 2003-03-11 23:20:17 UTC 
feature added in cvs
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