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parse / reload bug

2004-11-10 by Klas Heggemann

We are running greylist-milter version 1.5.10 + some patches.


Yesterday I added the extra ebay range to the  config file, installed 
and
checked the syslog file which reported that it was reloaded.

However i missed to add a newline last, which resulted in that
the whole configuration file was discarded. The error is

unknown token "#" line 155

(which is last line with no newline)
	
This resulted in no whitelistiing of our local hosts, and a default 
greylist
timeout in 30 minutes :-(

When doing a restart of the milter, the error is reported on stderr.

I've hacked a -c flag to the milter-greylist, which checks the config 
file,
but does not start the deamon. Since conf_load does not return any 
status,
exit status will always be the same, so you have to check out for the 
errors
you self. This is a trival fix, but I can send a patch if you want.


(A simular but not as fatal error is when you use '/' in a comment

addr 130.237..0./16	# our net / and more

which results in
	

error at line 156: parse error

)


Klas Heggemann

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