Anthony Campbell:
> On 18 Dec 2009, Wietse Venema wrote:
> > Anthony Campbell:
> > >
> > > I am running postfix via the Debian package in Sid.
> > >
> > > I get the following message during installation or with postfix check:
> > >
> > > postfix/usr/lib/postfix/post-install: line 493: test: too many arguments
> > > /usr/lib/postfix/post-install: line 493: test: too many arguments
> > > /usr/lib/postfix/post-install: line 493: test: too many arguments
> > > /usr/lib/postfix/post-install: line 493: test: too many arguments
> > >
> > > But postfix still runs normally.
> > >
> > > I commented out the following lines in /usr/lib/postfix/post-install
> > > which seem to refer to Solaris:
> > >
> > > # Flag obsolete objects. XXX Solaris 2..9 does not have "test -e".
> > > if [ -n "$obsolete_flag" ]
> > > then
> > > test -r $path -a "$type" != "d" && obsolete="$obsolete $path"
> > > continue;
> > > else
> > > keep_list="$keep_list $path"
> > > fi
> > >
> > > This removes the error and there don't seem to be any adverse effects
> > > so far. Can anyone shed light on this please?
> >
> > You probably have garbage at the end of /etc/postfix/postfix-files.
> > Delete any empty line, ^Z characters or other junk.
> >
> > Wietse
>
> There doesn't seem to be anything of that sort there, and no empty
> lines.
I will not take futher action until I have enough information to
reproduce this. Perhaps surprisingly, I am not running the same
Postfix port, and I am not running the same OS distribution.
Wietse
