On 12/5/2009, John Horne (john.ho...@plymouth.ac.uk) wrote:
> Ah, sorry that was my fault. Yes, it would make sense to specify the
> pathname.

Heh... no worries. :)

>> Apparently it works with or without the quotes even specifying multiple
>> arguments, as I tried both:
>> 
>> PORT_WHITELIST=/usr/sbin/couriertls TCP:2006
>> 
>> and
>> 
>> PORT_WHITELIST="/usr/sbin/couriertls TCP:2006"
>> 
>> and it worked fine both times.
>> 

> Okay, you got me  :-)  You are right. However, the config file options are
> treated a little like environment variables, and for a variable to have
> a space in it, then quotes must be used (I'm ignoring escaped spaces
> here!). Rather than confuse people by saying that variables need quotes
> but the config file doesn't, it is easier to state that a
> space-separated list must have double-quotes around it. That way people
> will always get it right.

Understood... thanks again for all your help, everything seems to be
sorted now, so I'll go back to lurk mode. :)

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