Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 12:20:13 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com> To: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/39940: /usr/sbin/periodic sends thousands of emails Message-ID: <20020708122013.A34407@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <200206281050.g5SAo40M000627@freefall.freebsd.org>; from roam@ringlet.net on Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 03:50:04AM -0700 References: <200206281050.g5SAo40M000627@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 03:50:04AM -0700, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR bin/39940; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
> To: Guolin Cheng <guolin@alexa.com>
> Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Re: bin/39940: /usr/sbin/periodic sends thousands of emails
> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 13:39:54 +0300
>
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 05:28:21PM -0700, Guolin Cheng wrote:
[snip]
> > 3, the coufiguration file */periodic.conf, which contain variable
> > definition entries including <basedir>_{show|output|...}, will confuse
> > Bourne Shell interpreter when the basedir contains character '.',
> > which is normal for directory name but not appropriate for shell
> > variable name substitution.
>
> One might argue that this may be solved by the "Don't do that"
> approach.. An underscore character would serve just as well as a word
> separator in the directory name.
And this is also documented in periodic(8),
BUGS
Since one specifies information about a directory using shell variables
containing the string, <basedir>, <basedir> must only contain characters
that are valid within a sh(1) variable name, alphanumerics and under-
scores, and the first character may not be numeric.
--
Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu
| cjclark@jhu.edu
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