Bug 259301

Summary:	arpwatch tries to use /usr/lib/sendmail
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Pekka Savola <pekkas>
Component:	tcpdump	Assignee:	Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	5.0	CC:	omoris
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Description Pekka Savola 2007-08-28 08:30:19 UTC

Description of problem:
Arpwatch tries to use /usr/lib/sendmail to to send its mails but it does not exist.

This results in the following kind of log messages:
Aug 28 11:19:01 otso arpwatch: execl: /usr/lib/sendmail: No such file or directory

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
arpwatch-2.1a13-15.8.1

How reproducible:
strings /usr/sbin/arpwatch | grep sendmail

If it's /usr/lib/sendmail, it's broken.

Actual results:
/usr/lib/sendmail

Expected results:
/usr/sbin/sendmail

Additional info:

Recompiling sendmail on a system that includes /usr/sbin/sendmail fixes this. 
The problem is in that the spec file should have 'Requires: /usr/sbin/sendmail'
or similar so that it pulls in the right dependencies at build time.

Note: tested on CentOS 5 but the problem is believed to be the same.

Comment 1 Miroslav Lichvar 2007-08-29 15:12:53 UTC

Thanks for the report.

Most MTAs provide also /usr/lib/sendmail, but using /usr/sbin/sendmail is
certainly better.

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2007-10-19 20:26:44 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2008-05-21 16:54:00 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0321.html