Debian Bug report logs - #298832
A method for passing arguments with spaces to postgrey

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Robert Waldner <waldner+bug@waldner.priv.at>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: A method for passing arguments with spaces to postgrey

Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:22:21 +0100

Package: postgrey
Version: 1.17-2
Severity: wishlist


Hi!

At the moment it doesn't seem possible to pass an argument with spaces
via /etc/default/postgrey to postgrey, because the shell doesn't expand
an argument multiple times.

To be more specifix, I'm unable to find a way to pass
--greylist-text="Text with blanks" to postgrey in a workable manner.

I think a good way around all this would be a bit of shuffling around, 
and to use an array for the options. For example, moving the options in
/etc/init.d/postgrey further up:

POSTGREY_OPTS="--pidfile=$PIDFILE --daemonize"

# Read config file if it is present.
if [ -r /etc/default/$NAME ]
then
        . /etc/default/$NAME
fi

change the call from start-stop-daemon:

        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE \
                --exec $DAEMON -- "${POSTGREY_OPTS[@]}"

and, finally, have /etc/default/postgrey contain:

POSTGREY_OPTS=($POSTGREY_OPTS --inet=127.0.0.1:60000 --delay=10
 "--greylist-text=Text with blanks.")

This way, one can make use of all of postgrey's options in a clean manner.

cheers,
&rw

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: sparc (sparc64)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-1-sparc64
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages postgrey depends on:
ii  debconf                       1.4.30.11  Debian configuration management sy
ii  libberkeleydb-perl            0.26-3     use Berkeley DB 4 databases from P
ii  libnet-dns-perl               0.48-1     Perform DNS queries from a Perl sc
ii  libnet-server-perl            0.87-2     An extensible, general perl server
ii  perl                          5.8.4-5    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

-- debconf information:
  postgrey/1.13-5_move-db:
  postgrey/1.14-1_lookup-by-subnet:
  postgrey/1.13-5_old-config:

Message #12 received at 309515-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Adrian von Bidder <cmot@debian.org>

To: 309515-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#309515: fixed in postgrey 1.21-2

Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 08:02:27 -0400

Source: postgrey
Source-Version: 1.21-2

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
postgrey, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

postgrey_1.21-2.diff.gz
  to pool/main/p/postgrey/postgrey_1.21-2.diff.gz
postgrey_1.21-2.dsc
  to pool/main/p/postgrey/postgrey_1.21-2.dsc
postgrey_1.21-2_all.deb
  to pool/main/p/postgrey/postgrey_1.21-2_all.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 309515@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Adrian von Bidder <cmot@debian.org> (supplier of updated postgrey package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Format: 1.7
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 13:42:15 +0200
Source: postgrey
Binary: postgrey
Architecture: source all
Version: 1.21-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Adrian von Bidder <cmot@debian.org>
Changed-By: Adrian von Bidder <cmot@debian.org>
Description: 
 postgrey   - greylisting implementation for Postfix
Closes: 265856 308381 309515 313140
Changes: 
 postgrey (1.21-2) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Debconf translations:
     * cz, thanks to Miroslav Kure (closes: #308381)
     * ru, thanks to Yuriy Talakan (closes: #313140)
   * sarge has postfix 2.1, and Conflicts: wasn't strictly necessary anyway
     (closes: #265856)
   * allow passing --greylist-text with spaces (closes: #309515)
     thanks to Sven Müller for providing an easy solution
Files: 
 11270262b87381cfb3aeec24be33decb 681 mail optional postgrey_1.21-2.dsc
 714083753ad5918735dde641d696d546 13958 mail optional postgrey_1.21-2.diff.gz
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