Bug 2764

Summary:	_PATH_MAILDIR is /var/mail, should be /var/spool/mail
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Component:	glibc	Assignee:	Cristian Gafton <gafton>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	6.0	CC:	fisher, hvr, zdenek
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	1999-07-02 22:00:18 UTC	Type:	---
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Description Jeff Johnson 1999-05-12 15:14:36 UTC

_PATH_MAILDIR on i386 (but not sparc) is set incorrectly
to /var/mail. This causes finger (and kbiff) to look in the
wrong directory for incoming mail.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 1999-05-12 15:16:59 UTC

*** Bug 2730 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

when checking for a users' mail status finger expects the
mailfiles in /var/mail instead of /var/spool/mail

Comment 2 Cristian Gafton 1999-07-02 22:00:59 UTC

This is fixed in the glibc 2.1.2 package. finger will have to be
recompiled, though.

The new glibc rpm will be available in rawhide shortly.

Comment 3 Jeff Johnson 1999-08-26 14:05:59 UTC

*** Bug 4722 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Both finger and fingerd from new RH 6.0 packages
(finger-0.10-24) search for user mailboxes in /var/mail, not
in /var/spool/mail as it was on RH 5.2 (0.10-5). This occurs
in local use as well as in remote user@server use.
The only thing strace showed me was
stat("/var/mail/jmeno", 0xbffffb68)     = -1 ENOENT (No such
file or directory)