Re: Cyrus IMAP 3.0.0-rc1 Config Lint Surprise

Nic Bernstein via Info-cyrus <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.cyrus
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thanks for the heads-up.  We'll get this fixed, it is the man page which 
is correct.
     -nic

On 01/16/2017 10:19 AM, Andy Dorman via Info-cyrus wrote:
> On 01/13/2017 12:07 AM, ellie timoney via Info-cyrus wrote:
>> The Cyrus team is proud to announce the immediate availability of the
>> first release candidate from the Cyrus IMAP 3.0 series: 3.0.0-rc1.
>>
>> As a release candidate, it is considered near-stable for production
>> usage.   Interfaces, APIs, features, etc are not likely to change
>> between now and the full release.
>>
>> If you plan to upgrade to 3.0, we recommend starting to test your
>> upgrade process now.  Feedback and bug reports will be greatly
>> appreciated!
>>
>
> Hi everyone.  We started the process of checking our Cyrus configs in 
> preparation for testing our dev/beta Debian Cyrus install (2.5.10-3) 
> and ran into an issue right away.
>
> I believe the instruction line at this URL:
>
> http://www.cyrusimap.org/dev/imap/download/upgrade.html#copy-config-files-and-update 
>
>
> for lint checking the cyrus & imapd configs have the file types 
> backwards.  The instruction shows:
>
> cyr_info conf-lint -C <path to cyrus.conf> -M <path to imapd.conf>
>
> But according to the man page the command should look like this:
>
> cyr_info [ -C alt imapd.conf ] [ -M alt cyrus.conf ] command
>
> And indeed, if you run the command as shown on the web page you get an 
> error caused by the first line of the START section.
>
> /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/cyr_info conf-lint -C /etc/cyrus.conf -M 
> /etc/imapd.conf
> fatal error: invalid option name on line 6 of configuration file 
> /etc/cyrus.conf
>
> If I run it as the man page suggests, the output looks a little more 
> reasonable. (and I have a little bit of work to do :-)
>
> Hope this helps.
>

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