February 2008
2 posts
BASH: When Spaces Matter
As I primarily work with PHP, I have no problem (mostly), dropping in spaces haphazardly. In fact, my convetion for var setting looks like
$variable= “value”;
note the space between $variable and “value”.
Well, when you’re scripting for BASH, the space results in “value” being treated as a shell command. This is almost certainly not what you want....
OpenEMM breaks sendmail.
Installed OpenEMM lately?
Took it down because the Java stack it used was sucking up resources (up to 100M of RAM on my machine)?
Guess what. Your sendmail is now broken.
Openemm installs a filter that can’t be processed when the server isn’t running. When sendmail can’t process the filter, it simply fails out.
Way to go, OpenEMM! I’m sure there’s got to be...