Cyrus IMAP 3.0.0-rc1 Config Lint Surprise

[ellie timoney]

This is now fixed, thanks Andy for the report and Nic for the pull
request :)

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017, at 09:42 AM, Bron Gondwana via Info-cyrus wrote:
> Thanks Nic, yeah - that page was back to front.  Good find Andy.
> 
> Bron.
> 
> On Tue, 17 Jan 2017, at 04:01, Nic Bernstein via Info-cyrus wrote:
> > Thanks for the heads-up.  We'll get this fixed, it is the man page which 
> > is correct.
> >      -nic
> > 
> > On 01/16/2017 10:19 AM, Andy Dorman via Info-cyrus wrote:
> > > On 01/13/2017 12:07 AM, ellie timoney via Info-cyrus wrote:
> > >> The Cyrus team is proud to announce the immediate availability of the
> > >> first release candidate from the Cyrus IMAP 3.0 series: 3.0.0-rc1.
> > >>
> > >> As a release candidate, it is considered near-stable for production
> > >> usage.   Interfaces, APIs, features, etc are not likely to change
> > >> between now and the full release.
> > >>
> > >> If you plan to upgrade to 3.0, we recommend starting to test your
> > >> upgrade process now.  Feedback and bug reports will be greatly
> > >> appreciated!
> > >>
> > >
> > > Hi everyone.  We started the process of checking our Cyrus configs in 
> > > preparation for testing our dev/beta Debian Cyrus install (2.5.10-3) 
> > > and ran into an issue right away.
> > >
> > > I believe the instruction line at this URL:
> > >
> > > http://www.cyrusimap.org/dev/imap/download/upgrade.html#copy-config-files-and-update 
> > >
> > >
> > > for lint checking the cyrus & imapd configs have the file types 
> > > backwards.  The instruction shows:
> > >
> > > cyr_info conf-lint -C <path to cyrus.conf> -M <path to imapd.conf>
> > >
> > > But according to the man page the command should look like this:
> > >
> > > cyr_info [ -C alt imapd.conf ] [ -M alt cyrus.conf ] command
> > >
> > > And indeed, if you run the command as shown on the web page you get an 
> > > error caused by the first line of the START section.
> > >
> > > /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/cyr_info conf-lint -C /etc/cyrus.conf -M 
> > > /etc/imapd.conf
> > > fatal error: invalid option name on line 6 of configuration file 
> > > /etc/cyrus.conf
> > >
> > > If I run it as the man page suggests, the output looks a little more 
> > > reasonable. (and I have a little bit of work to do :-)
> > >
> > > Hope this helps.
> > >
> > 
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