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Subject: Re: amavis[12345]: (12345-02) (!)file utility failed: exit 1
From: Michael Grimm <trashcan@odo.in-berlin.de>
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Hi --

On 23.10.2013, at 20:03, Mark Martinec <Mark.Martinec+freebsd@ijs.si> wrote:

> The text "ERROR: line 163: regex error 17, (illegal byte sequence)"
> comes from the file utility, unmodified.
> 
>> 1) Is the file utility to blame?
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> 2) My setup?
> 
> Possibly (e.g. broken magic database).
> 
> Looks like a known bug in the file utility, already fixed upstream:
> 
>  http://bugs.gw.com/my_view_page.php
>    (search for: illegal byte sequence)
> 
> Should be reproducible by running the file(1) from a command line
> (in the same/similar environment as amavisd is running, just in case).

Confirmed, it's throwing the same error message[1]:

| mail> /usr/local/bin/file zzz
| zzz: ERROR: line 163: regex error 17, (illegal byte sequence)

Thank you for helping me understand that issue. Now, I will wait for
a corrected file port.

With kind regards,
Michael


[1] Sorry, I should have tested it this way already.