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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Temporary dir for mailpost (Julien ?LIE)
2. Re: INN 2.6.0 release candidate (Julien ?LIE)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 20:15:11 +0200
From: Julien ?LIE <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Temporary dir for mailpost
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Hi Russ,
>> Hmm... Couldn't we also just create and use the ~/.mailpost directory by
>> default instead of INN's pathtmp? (or ~/.inn-mailpost or ~/.inn/mailpost
>> that could be useful if we ever wish to store files for other programs ?)
>
> The problem there is that the user mailpost is running at may not (and
> probably shouldn't) have a home directory that it can write to. With a
> lot of mail systems, it's going to be running as some user like daemon,
> which normally won't have write access anywhere in the file system other
> than to world-writable directories.
Oh, you're right, it would not work in that case.
> These days, it's a lot easier to arrange to run programs from the mail
> system as another user (like the news user), so your approach does make
> sense if we can encourage people to run mailpost as news. In that case,
> it might even make sense to just use pathdb for the persistent database.
Then for INN 2.6.0, we could:
- warn in the Upgrade Section that people using mailpost without an
explicitly configured database directory with the -b parameter should
manually move the database from $pathtmp to $pathdb (I do not see how to
do it automatically as we do not know how mailpost is launched; one may
even use "-b pathtmp" explicitly);
- change the default value for the -b option from pathtmp to pathdb;
- add a new configurable -t option to configure the location of the
directory to use to temporarily store error messages that are sent to
the newsmaster. Two paths are tried by default: pathtmp as set in
inn.conf, and then /var/tmp if pathtmp is not writable;
- die with an explicit error message if either the directory for the
database or the one for the temporary files refer to a path that does
not exist or the mailpost process does not have write access to.
And for INN 2.5.5, for backwards compatibility, just add the new -t
option and the checks for writable directories.
Would that sound good?
--
Julien ?LIE
? ? On nage dans le lac, on escalade les montagnes?
? Ben quoi ? Nous ne sommes pas en vacances ! ? (Ast?rix)
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 20:19:41 +0200
From: Julien ?LIE <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: INN 2.6.0 release candidate
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Hi all,
Has someone had the time to test the upgrade to INN 2.6.0?
No issue to report? That's great, then :)
Please note that time for releasing INN 2.6.0 approaches so upgrading to
it now and test it before making the final release, would be greatly
appreciated.
> A release candidate for INN 2.6.0 has just been made available
> for download on ftp.isc.org:
>
> http://ftp.isc.org/isc/inn/testing/
>
> Please report any issue you may encounter, especially during
> the upgrade process from INN 2.5.x.
>
> The final 2.6.0 release is scheduled in May or June.
--
Julien ?LIE
? ? On nage dans le lac, on escalade les montagnes?
? Ben quoi ? Nous ne sommes pas en vacances ! ? (Ast?rix)
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