Bug 20215
| Summary: | vacation utility does not work with RH6.2 | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Powertools | Reporter: | David D. Johnson <ddj> |
| Component: | vacation | Assignee: | Than Ngo <than> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2000-11-06 17:50:47 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Sorry, I didn't see the previous RESOLVED entry, but my comment about the new contrib code still is valid. as i known the 1.2.2 is the newest. you find it in 7.0 |
I set up vacation according to the README files and man pages. I added a link from /usr/bin/vacation to /etc/smrsh, and ran vacation to set up the message and .forward files. Also ran vacation -I to initialize the database. Result is that incoming messages are replied to with a completely empty message (just headers). The symptoms are that vacation closes the pipe to sendmail and exits before sendmail has a chance to finish, sendmail gets a broken pipe, and vacation gets a seg fault closing a FILE pointer that was already closed. The quick solution is to change vfork to fork. The better solution would be to use popen("...sendmail", "w") and pclose(), rather than pipe/fork/rearrange fds/fdopen/close. Note: there is a newer source RPM in contrib/libc6 which has the same problem with vfork, but has added code to ignore case when comparing headers.