email.sh exit code 1 postinstall script with no-admin (was: Bug in strftime %z) (was: Possible defect in email.exe re: sent timestamp)

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jan  9 21:24, Bob Doskuno wrote:
> I didn't try the snapshot, but I did try email.
> 
> Now, running setup (with no-admin) gives a postinstall script error. Sending a couple test emails worked, but there seems to be an invalid assumption, that the user will have admin, in the postinstall script, giving:
> 
> 
> Package: _/Unknown package
> email.sh exit code 1
> 
> 
> /var/log/setup.log.full excerpt:
> 
> 2015/01/09 11:50:41 running: C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/email.sh"
> chown: changing ownership of '/etc/defaults/etc/email/email.address.template': Permission denied
> chown: changing ownership of '/etc/defaults/etc/email/email.conf': Permission denied
> chown: changing ownership of '/etc/defaults/etc/email/email.help': Permission denied
> chown: changing ownership of '/etc/defaults/etc/email/email.sig': Permission denied
> chown: changing ownership of '/etc/defaults/etc/email/mime.types': Permission denied
> 2015/01/09 11:50:44 abnormal exit: exit code=1
> 
> 
> Excerpt from /etc/postinstall/email.sh where error happens:
> 
> 
> SYSTEMUID=$(sed -ne '/^[^:]*:[^:]*:[0-9]*:[0-9]*:[^:]*,S-1-5-18:.*:/{s/[^:]*:[^:]*:\([0-9]*\):.*$/\1/p;q}' /etc/passwd)
> ADMINSGID=$(sed -ne '/^[^:]*:S-1-5-32-544:.*:/{s/[^:]*:[^:]*:\([0-9]*\):.*$/\1/p;q}' /etc/group)
> setfacl -m u::rw-,g::rw-,o:r-- /etc/defaults/etc/email/*
> if [ -n "${SYSTEMUID}" -a -n "${ADMINSGID}" ]
> then
> chown "${SYSTEMUID}:${ADMINSGID}" /etc/defaults/etc/email/*
> else
> ...

Thanks for the report.  This definitely needs fixing.


Corinna

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