[plug] cron.daily problem

[Cameron Patrick]

G'day,

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 20:55:32 +0800, Robert Andrews wrote:
| I have not used 'sed' nor do I understand how it functions I have a
| general idea after reading the man page postfix is operating correctly
| 
| I think the part that confuses me is  /s/^.*= //p
| Is it possable for somebody to explain this line to me or at least
| tell me what is wrong.

The sed command looks for a line containing command_directory and removes everything prior to an equals sign, including the space after the equals sign.  So if you have a line that looks like

command_directory = /usr/bin

...then the sed script will output /usr/bin.  This sounds like a remarkably fragile thing to do, because if your postfix config file contains comments, or tabs instead of spaces, or something along those lines, the sed command won't work.  (Then again, I don't use postfix, so I could be completely off-target here.)

CP.