Cyrus IMAP 3.0.0-rc1 Config Lint Surprise

[Andy Dorman]

Sometimes it helps to be anal.  :-)

Andy

On 01/16/2017 05:20 PM, ellie timoney via Info-cyrus wrote:
> 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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