| Summary: | escape characters wrong in mail | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Tom Jones <tjones> |
| Component: | mailx | Assignee: | Jay Turner <jturner> |
| Status: | CLOSED DEFERRED | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.0 | CC: | romain, srevivo |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 1999-06-17 22:52:09 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | ||
There are several vim packages and it is not clear which vi should be compiled into mailx as default. Either install vim-enhanced or set VISUAL/EDITOR to the one you desire: bash$ rpm -qf /bin/vi vim-minimal-5.3-7 bash$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/vi vim-enhanced-5.3-7 bash$ rpm -qf /usr/X11R6/bin/vimx vim-X11-5.3-7 olof@us.ibm.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Owner|olof@us.ibm.com |linas@us.ibm.com ------- Additional Comments From olof@us.ibm.com(prefers email via olof@austin.ibm.com) 2003-31-07 18:02 ------- Over to Linas |
/bin/mail's ~v and ~e escapes attempt to execute /usr/bin/vi and /usr/bin/ex, respectively. These binaries are in the /bin directory in the current release. Work around by setting VISUAL and EDITOR in ,mailrc. ~v /usr/bin/vi: No such file or directory Fatal error in process. (continue) ~e /usr/bin/ex: No such file or directory Fatal error in process. (continue)