Milter-greylist

Hello all,

   I am facing an issue on a host where I tried new milter-greylist
(4.3.3 with patches for chown) - my old init-script used on many
installations with much older greylists includes parsing of output
via grep so as to report a little on the console during startup.

   This currently hangs the initscript, with grep apparently waiting
for input. I also tried to to OUT=`milter-greylist $OPTIONS` in order
to parse the $OUT variable contents - but to the same effect, this
subshell never exits. I also tried '-D' option paired with '&' to
background the milter started in no-fork mode. If I ctrl+break the
script, milter is running in the background (if started without -D),
however.

   So far the only working workaround was to not parse this output
completely, which is valid but uncool - and a regression compared
to older versions ;)

   By guess, this may have to do with (not) closing stdout in some
way after the initialization and reporting on it has completed
(i.e. which ACLs were loaded, etc.)

   Does this ring a bell? Were there any similar changes, perhaps
in the past 2-3 years? (The other hosts are quite aged, yes).

Thanks,
//Jim Klimov

On 2013-07-27 16:02, Jim Klimov wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am facing an issue on a host where I tried new milter-greylist
> (4.3.3 with patches for chown) - my old init-script used on many

Pardon me, new is 4.4.3 of course :)

The old systems which worked (and still do) with grepping on output
use milter-greylist version 4.2.3.

So, unless it is some local bug, the code changed somewhere in-between.

Both installations are based on either OpenSolaris or Solaris 10 x86.

Thanks again,
//Jim Klimov