Bug 253350

Summary:	cache functionality of jwhois disabled in spec file
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	wstearns
Component:	jwhois	Assignee:	Vitezslav Crhonek <vcrhonek>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description wstearns 2007-08-18 04:19:09 UTC

Description of problem:
jwhois has code to allow caching of results.  the fedora spec file has 
a "%configure --without-cache" line that disables this.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.2.3

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Uncomment "cachefile = "/var/lib/jwhois.db";" in /etc/jwhois.conf
2.  Uncomment "cacheexpire = 168;" in /etc/jwhois.conf
3.  Touch /var/lib/jwhois.db
4.  Do a whois lookup


  
Actual results:
5.  /var/lib/jwhois.db stays at 0 bytes


Expected results:
5.  /var/lib/jwhois.db should grow


Additional info:

Comment 1 Vitezslav Crhonek 2007-08-24 09:43:47 UTC

Hi, may I ask -- why do you need it? I wonder if there is widely more users,
that will use cache and benefit from it? It brings new group to the system,
solving obsolete records in cache and potential security issues.

Comment 2 Vitezslav Crhonek 2007-09-03 11:56:35 UTC

jwhois-4.0-2.fc8 is configured without disabling cache, so you can try...

Comment 3 Paul Wouters 2007-10-01 04:03:31 UTC

Indeed. It now works!
And by using the "jwhois -c /other/place/jwhois.conf" I can use caching for my
program without any setuid requirements.

Thanks!