Bug#545554: cyrus-common-2.2: Cyrus package upgrade runs and incorrect 'find' commandline

Adam Kramer akramer at gmail.com
Tue Sep 8 04:41:23 UTC 2009


Package: cyrus-common-2.2
Version: 2.2.13-14+lenny1
Severity: important

While upgrading minor versions of cyrus packages, I saw this find commandline in the process table:
find /var/spool/sieve -print0 ( -not -user cyrus -or -not -group mail )

This is an incorrect use of find. -print0 must be at the end of the commandline - what I pasted above prints out *every* file and directory under /var/spool/sieve.
This also explains why the upgrade took so long.
Find is a tricky and unpleasant beast.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-vserver-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages cyrus-common-2.2 depends on:
ii  adduser        3.110                     add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debco 1.5.24                    Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg           1.14.25                   Debian package management system
ii  exim4-daemon-h 4.69-9                    Exim MTA (v4) daemon with extended
ii  gawk           1:3.1.5.dfsg-4.1          GNU awk, a pattern scanning and pr
ii  libasn1-8-heim 1.2.dfsg.1-2.1            Heimdal Kerberos - ASN.1 library
ii  libc6          2.7-18                    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcomerr2     1.41.3-1                  common error description library
ii  libdb4.2       4.2.52+dfsg-5             Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [
ii  libgssapi2-hei 1.2.dfsg.1-2.1            Heimdal Kerberos - GSSAPI support 
ii  libkrb5-25-hei 1.2.dfsg.1-2.1            Heimdal Kerberos - libraries
ii  libroken18-hei 1.2.dfsg.1-2.1            Heimdal Kerberos - roken support l
ii  libsasl2-2     2.1.22.dfsg1-23+lenny1    Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra
ii  libsnmp15      5.4.1~dfsg-12             SNMP (Simple Network Management Pr
ii  libssl0.9.8    0.9.8g-15+lenny3          SSL shared libraries
ii  libwrap0       7.6.q-16                  Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libzephyr3     2.1.20070719.SNAPSHOT-1.2 Project Athena's notification serv
ii  netbase        4.34                      Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii  perl           5.10.0-19lenny2           Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

Versions of packages cyrus-common-2.2 recommends:
ii  cyrus-admin-2.2         2.2.13-14+lenny1 Cyrus mail system (administration 
ii  cyrus-imapd-2.2         2.2.13-14+lenny1 Cyrus mail system (IMAP support)
ii  cyrus-murder-2.2        2.2.13-14+lenny1 Cyrus mail system (proxies and agg
ii  cyrus-nntpd-2.2         2.2.13-14+lenny1 Cyrus mail system (NNTP support)
ii  cyrus-pop3d-2.2         2.2.13-14+lenny1 Cyrus mail system (POP3 support)

Versions of packages cyrus-common-2.2 suggests:
ii  apt-listchanges   2.83                   package change history notificatio
ii  cyrus-admin-2.2   2.2.13-14+lenny1       Cyrus mail system (administration 
ii  cyrus-clients-2.2 2.2.13-14+lenny1       Cyrus mail system (test clients)
ii  cyrus-doc-2.2     2.2.13-14+lenny1       Cyrus mail system (documentation f
ii  cyrus-imapd-2.2   2.2.13-14+lenny1       Cyrus mail system (IMAP support)
ii  cyrus-murder-2.2  2.2.13-14+lenny1       Cyrus mail system (proxies and agg
ii  cyrus-nntpd-2.2   2.2.13-14+lenny1       Cyrus mail system (NNTP support)
ii  cyrus-pop3d-2.2   2.2.13-14+lenny1       Cyrus mail system (POP3 support)
ii  sasl2-bin         2.1.22.dfsg1-23+lenny1 Cyrus SASL - administration progra

-- debconf information:
  cyrus-common-2.2/removespools: false
  cyrus-common-2.2/warnbackendchange:





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