On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:24:39AM -0400, Jo for lists and groups wrote:

Good day all! We are getting an error in the logs:

../.bin/extraddr: subscription request from who@domain.tld who@domain.tld - assigned cookie s03261058491490 sed: -e expression #1, char 4: Unexpected ','

Would this refer to the comma in the maxcookies line near the bottom of confirm_add? How to fix?

$cat $confirmtxt $echo ""

$rm -f _dummy_ `$ls -td cookies/* | $sed -e '1,'$maxcookies' d' `

$sed -e 's/^/>/' $tmprequest ) | $SENDMAIL $sendmailOPT $authaddr

I don't know enough about sed (find all shell hard to grasp), but other programming experience tells me the two sets of ' are ambiguous or confusing. Is this what was meant - a delet range 1-to-maxcookies - okay to drop the inner quotes?

  $sed -e '1,$maxcookies d'

No, that would leave the literal string '$maxcookies' in the sed command. The original form allows the shell to expand the variable, and at the same time remove the single quotes, so that sed sees a single string, the concatenation of '1,', the value of $maxcookies, and ' d'.

If maxcookies is not set then sed would see '1, d', which gives the error you're seeing, e.g.:

$ ls | sed '1, d' sed: -e expression #1, char 4: unexpected `,'

Ken

Many thanks in advance for any assistance. Jo