[augeas-devel] [Augeas] #90: inittab lens should allow # in the field values

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#90: inittab lens should allow # in the field values
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 Reporter:  caetano  |       Owner:  lutter
     Type:  defect   |      Status:  new   
 Priority:  major    |   Milestone:  next  
Component:  Augeas   |     Version:  0.5.3 
 Keywords:           |  
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 We install various IBM software and DB2 and Tivoli Directory Server add
 entries to the inittab like this:

 fmc:2345:respawn:/opt/ibm/db2/V9.5/bin/db2fmcd #DB2 Fault Monitor
 Coordinator
 ids0:2345:once:/opt/ibm/ldap/V6.2/sbin/ibmdiradm -I ldapdb > /dev/null
 2>&1 #Autostart IBM LDAP Admin Daemon Instance

 This doesn't parse in the current inittab.aug (0.5.3) because
   let value = /[^#:\n]*/
 Doesn't allow a # comment character in the value, so the process field
 can't have it and then it doesn't swallow up everything to the eol as
 expected...
 My fix which I have deployed to /usr/share/augeas/lenses/ just sets
   let value = /[^:\n]*/
 i.e. I allow #s in values which seems reasonable as only really ids need
 that protection...

 This makes the inittab with the above lines parse with the lense.
 Please consider adding this change to the official distribution.

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Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/augeas/ticket/90>
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