Illegal Line in secrets and/or mapsecrets

[Ivan Kohler]

Hi,

Sorry to take such a ludicrously long time to respond, but I wanted to
install Perl 5.005 and see if I could duplicate your problem.  As it turns
out, I can't seem to duplicate your problem - it seems to work fine on my
system.

I'm using Perl 5.005_03; one of the things you should try is installing
that.  Also try installing Perl from source instead of .rpm.  Red Hat
tends to ship badly broken Perls.

As you've figured out, multiple lines being read as a single line is the
cause of your various problems.

You aren't by any chance writing the configuration files on a Mac or
Windows machine or something else with strange notions about line
delimters?

Is $/ set to "\n" ?

    perl -e 'print "yes it is\n" if $/ eq "\n";'

I'll try to install a mailing list search soon.  This was the first
(though it looks like not the last!) I've heard of this particular
problem.

On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 10:56:36AM -0700, Joel Griffiths wrote:
> Hello all:
> ---- Possibly relevant information
> Perl - Version 5.005_02
> RedHat 5.2 - All updates installed
> MySQL - 3.22.21
> Apache - 1.3.3
> 
> ---- Problem #1
> I'm getting an error about invalid lines in my mapsecrets and secrets file. The
> mapsecrets file gives an error like this:
> Illegal line in /usr/local/etc/freeside//mapsecrets: freeside secrets griff
> secrets 
> 
> When I use a secrets file like this:
> freeside secrets
> griff secrets
> 
> It gets past this, however, when I change the mapsecrets to this:
> freeside secrets
> 
> It seems to only recognize a single user in the freeside database.
> 
> ---- Problem #2
> When I am pointed to the secrets file properly (using the second example
> above), I get a very similar error message:
> Illegal line in /usr/local/etc/freeside//secrets: DBI:mysql:freeside freeside
> mypasswd
> 
> with this secrets file:
> DBI:mysql:freeside
> freeside
> mypasswd
> 
> If I remove the password/username completely from the secrets file,
> the database MySQL, complains about not being able to log in, but it does TRY
> to log in. I would generally not want to remove the mysql password to make this
> work. I've read the mailing lists pretty thoroughly (though, I imagine it's
> somewhere in there - a search tool would be nice) but haven't come across this
> problem.
> 
> Does anybody know what I am doing wrong?
> 
> Thanks -- Joel Griffiths

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