John W. Baxter wrote:
> On 6/4/10 2:38 PM, "W B Hacker" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Presuming this applies only to (the balance of) the current session and child
>> process, why should it be a 'PANIC' situation anyway? Hard-coded PANIC,
>> IMNSHO, 
>> should be reserved for events/absence of events that impair the ability of 
>> the
>> MTA to function at all.
>>
>> Now - if it were to disable optioned-on DKIM signature verification 
>> (attempts)
>> for all *subsequent* sessions/children, that MIGHT be worthy of a 'PANIC'.
> 
> Thank you, Bill.
> 
> Sadly, I was thinking more of my situation here, where I don't want panic
> log entries for the DKIM parsing failure but do want the (main) logged
> information about incoming DKIM generally, than about a proper fix for
> <http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=966>.
> 
> I think I'll go ahead and build a sed script that throws my patch into the
> source and see what happens on the development server. (Our builds begin by
> extracting the source fresh from the tarball, so such things have to happen
> with each build.)
> 
>   --John
> 
> 
> 

Never learned sed. Do use 'rpl -s' as well as grep to just find the offender, 
manually edit it, recompile.

Which - at least on 'onesies' is arguably as fast, and makes it *way* easier to 
let the Mark One human eyeball glance nearby and see wot else a change might 
break. Something sed and patch aren't all that good at = at least until AFTER a 
change has been done and tested.

;-)

But yeah - whether 'greatest good..' or just 'least future devel hassle' - a 
generic change toward sysadmin steerability seems more approriate for all these 
newish - and generally non-catastrophic-failure - options.

Bill



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