inn-2.2.1 on OpenBSD-2.5

[Russ Allbery]

Yutaka KAWASE <yutaka at mailhost.net> writes:

> On slackware, it accepts control message of newgroup. However, OpenBSD
> doesn't. Instead, it gives me a mail "Unparseable newgroup by
> me at my.home".

> On the OpenBSD machine I edited the first line of ~/bin/control/newgroup
> as

> #!/usr/local/bin/bash

> which was originally,

> #!/bin/sh

> Then the things are fine now. ;-)

> Is this a problem with porting?

It sounds to me like a bug in whatever OpenBSD uses as /bin/sh (I assume
it isn't bash like it tends to be on Linux).  I've not seen this bug
before, though, and I'm guessing it would require some work by someone to
figure out what's going on that's not working right and narrowing it down
to some specific shell expressions.

The error message points to this part of newgroup:

##  Valid parameters and group name?
case "$#" in
1|2)
    ;;
*)
    ${SM} ${ARTICLE} | ${WRITELOG} ${LOGFILE} "Unparseable newgroup by ${FROM}"
    exit
    ;;
esac

Maybe $# is getting set to the wrong thing somehow?

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>