great.
From: Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 11:40 AM
Subject: Re: Problems with my simple write conf files method
On 02/21/2017 11:03 AM, KM wrote:
> I have never used this method per se, but in general in any script if you want to preserve the $ (dollar sign) or variable name you must use a backslash to preserve it. For example change your $CONF to \$CONF. The $CONF should then be printed into your conf file.
Thanks that worked.
> KM
>
> From: Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 10:50 AM
> Subject: Problems with my simple write conf files method
>
> I have been creating conf files and similar with the following method
> that I picked up (I think from psotfix docs):
>
> cat <<EOF>>/etc/aliases || exit 1
> root: youremail
> EOF
>
> See: http://medon.htt-consult.com/Centos7-armv7.html
>
> But with postfixadmin I stumbled onto a problem. The following:
>
> cat <<EOF>/usr/share/postfixadmin/config.local.php || exit 1
> <?php
> $CONF['database_type'] = 'mysqli';
> $CONF['database_user'] = 'postfix';
> $CONF['database_password'] = 'xyz';
> $CONF['database_name'] = 'postfix';
>
> $CONF['configured'] = true;
> ?>
> EOF
>
> produces:
>
> cat <<EOF>/usr/share/postfixadmin/config.local.php || exit 1
> <?php
> ['database_type'] = 'mysqli';
> ['database_user'] = 'postfix';
> ['database_password'] = 'xyz';
> ['database_name'] = 'postfix';
>
> ['configured'] = true;
> ?>
>
> That is the '$CONF' gets processed.
>
> What can I do to avoid this (and any other 'gotchas') or can someone
> provide an alternative?
>
> thanks
>
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