On 28-12-10 15:23, dovecot wrote:

On 28-12-10 14:39, Thomas Leuxner wrote:

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The error codes for' doveadm user' should be improved to avoid error handling workarounds when scripting commands:

$ doveadm user doveadm user [-a<userdb socket path>] [-x<auth info>]<user mask> […] $ echo $? 1 $ doveadm user foo userdb lookup: user foo doesn't exist $ echo $? 0

Please compare to ID output:

$ id foo id: foo: No such user $ echo $? 1

Regards Thomas

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It behaves just as 'man doveadm' promisses.....

EXIT STATUS doveadm will exit with one of the following values:

   0   Selected command was executed successful.

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0 Command failed in some way.

So, this seems to be correct!

SYNOPSIS doveadm [-Dv] user [-a userdb_socket_path] [-x auth_info] user ...

if you do a $ doveadm user $ echo $? 1

This is because you missed one needed parameter ('<user>')

$ doveadm user dovecot userdb: dovecot system_groups_user: dovecot uid : 114 gid : 114 home : /usr/local/lib/dovecot $ echo $? 0

Now its informing you of the uid and gid for the user 'dovecot', and because of that returning 0.

On 28-12-10 15:37, Thomas Leuxner wrote:

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Am 28.12.2010 um 15:34 schrieb dovecot:

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$ doveadm user dovecot userdb: dovecot system_groups_user: dovecot uid : 114 gid : 114 home : /usr/local/lib/dovecot $ echo $? 0 Nothing new, used a similar example in my first mail. Now try with a non-existent user and tell me what it should come up with? (*drum roll*)

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$ doveadm user abcd userdb lookup: user abcd doesn't exist $ echo $? 0 Based on the output of '0', the "Selected command was executed successful."

And it is informing you that a user with the name 'abcd' doent exist....

But, indeed, it would be better to return an error in this case

On 28-12-10 16:07, David Ford wrote:

dovecot, the whole point of his original email is to return a useful error code for the purpose of scripting. :) always returning 0 for both valid and invalid usernames isn't helpful

-d

OK,

But the original mail show an invalid use of the doveadm command 'doveadm user', which correctly produced a return-value of '1'

And a correclty formed command 'doveadm user foo', which correctly returned '0'

At the end of 'man doveadm-user' it says: "REPORTING BUGS Report bugs, including doveconf -n output, to the Dovecot Mailing List dovecot@dovecot.org."

While i think this is a change-request, and not a bug, i still wonder what the output of 'dovecot -n' will help in this case ;-)

-- Luuk

Am 30.12.2010 um 10:53 schrieb Timo Sirainen:

On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 14:39 +0100, Thomas Leuxner wrote:

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$ doveadm user foo userdb lookup: user foo doesn't exist $ echo $? 0

How about: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/c9b3716e56f7

Looking good. Thanks.