Comments on: Creating maildirs automatically

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 06:31:42 +0000

There was a problem in the mysql commandline it missed a -, the option skip-colum-names needed 2.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:59:26 +0000

Can you mail me your file as attachment ?

By: Fred

Fred — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:43:35 +0000

Gettin’ closer to getting this to work, Richard. Sorry for all the bother. Do you have any thoughts on why this wouldn’t work? It does not process the line,

while read DOMAIN EMAIL

Instead yielding the error:

/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql: unknown option ‘-k’

How can I further troubleshoot this? Also, is this required every time I add a new user? Or is there some more automated way?

By: Fred

Fred — Tue, 11 May 2010 06:46:46 +0000

I thought so, too. I inserted an ‘echo’ line to track what was going on, and the error occurs as the script reads the $MYSQL line. It makes it to, but never makes it past “while read DOMAIN EMAIL”, as my debug echo comment placed after this does not show up (but placed just before _does_).

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 11 May 2010 06:29:08 +0000

That’s strange, we don’t use an option -k in our command lines. I think there must be a typo in the query.

By: Fred

Fred — Tue, 11 May 2010 05:55:36 +0000

Hahahaha…clear one error, another one eagerly awaits. Above “EOF” error was due to a ‘?’ character instead of ‘ ” ‘ after “active = 1″ portion. Now, w/ that out of the way, I get:

/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql: unknown option ‘-k’

By: Fred

Fred — Mon, 10 May 2010 21:39:06 +0000

Guess I’m destined never to have this work… Despite converting the quotes above to ASCII, I still get the following error when trying to run the script:

./createmaildir: line 41: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `”‘
./createmaildir: line 51: syntax error: unexpected end of file