On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 12:31:55PM -0500, Jeffrey Ross wrote:
I got a bunch of perl updates that came down today and they seem to
have
caused some problems with exim's script exiqsumm
Use of uninitialized value $ARGV[0] in string eq at /usr/sbin/exiqsumm line 48.
I'm using the following command which kicks the error out "/usr/bin/mailq |
/usr/sbin/exiqsumm".
the line in /usr/sbin/exiqsumm is;
(lines 48 through 53)
if ($ARGV[0] eq '--version') {
print basename($0) . ": $0\n",
"build: 4.90_1\n",
"perl(runtime): $]\n";
exit 0;
}
I'm guessing the error is a warning since the command still runs as
expected.
It's a warning. It seems unlikely that a minor change to a perl version would
cause a change there. The warning is happening because its testing whether
the first command-line argument is equal to '--version', and there is no
first argument ($ARGV[0]).
Has the exiqsumm script also been updated recently? Its possible that a
newer release has enabled warnings (they're not on by default in perl),
either by adding '-w' to the #!/usr/bin/perl first line, or by adding
"use warnings" somewhere near the top of the script.
--
"I used to be with it, but then they changed what ‘it’ was, and now what
I’m with isn’t it. And what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary to me."
-- Grandpa Simpson
(It will happen to you too.)