David & Team, Apparently, the --dbdir option to postgrey does not work currently (seems everybody is happy with the default directory...) due to the '-T' option to perl.
Please see the report in Debian's bug database: <http://bugs.debian.org/309499> Sven M�ller who reported the bug also provided a patch: === diff -ur postgrey-1.21.orig/postgrey postgrey-1.21/postgrey --- postgrey-1.21.orig/postgrey 2005-05-17 18:47:20.000000000 +0200 +++ postgrey-1.21/postgrey 2005-05-17 18:59:05.000000000 +0200 @@ -406,6 +406,15 @@ } } + # if dbdir is used, make sure it + if ( $opt{dbdir} ) { + if ( $opt{dbdir} =~ m,^([a-zA-Z0-9_/]+)$, ) { + $opt{dbdir} = $1 + } else { + die "dbdir contains unwanted characters. Allowed characters: a-z,A-Z,0-9,_,/\n" + } + } + # create Net::Server object and run it my $server = bless { server => { === (NOTE: I think the regex should be more permissive and allow all legal file names, silly as they may seem now.) I didn't verify, assuming a bug reporter who is able to patch to fix the bug is not just filing bogus bug reports... Please keep [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the loop for replies. greetings -- vbi
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