Package: courier-authdaemon
Version: 0.66.4-5
Severity: grave
The /etc/init.d/courier-authdaemon script hangs on any use.
It contains the suspicious I/O loop:
if [ -r "$TMPFILES" ]; then
while read type path mode user group; do
if [ "$type" = "d" ]; then
mkdir -p "$path"
chmod "$mode" "$path"
chown "$user:$group" "$path"
[ -x /sbin/restorecon ] && /sbin/restorecon $path
fi
done
fi
which is attempting to read from stdio. But does not prompt the user
about what is expected to be typed in.
Looking at the file represented by $TMPFILES it appears that file is
supposed to be piped to the "while read" instead of waiting for user
input. This alteration makes the script finish and the package install
runs to completion;
if [ -r "$TMPFILES" ]; then
cat $TMPFILES | while read type path mode user group; do
if [ "$type" = "d" ]; then
mkdir -p "$path"
chmod "$mode" "$path"
chown "$user:$group" "$path"
[ -x /sbin/restorecon ] && /sbin/restorecon $path
fi
done
fi
Though I am not sure if the resulting installation is correct yet as
there are other issues somewhere preventing the init.d scripts from
actually doing anything.
"start" command appears to start daemons running. But "stop" command
does nothing despite reporting "[ok] success".
Amos
