Bug 4218

Summary:	finger tryes to access /var/mail/<user> instead of /var/spool/mail/<user>
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	iusty
Component:	finger	Assignee:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description iusty 1999-07-27 12:11:40 UTC

When I run finger on the current host, like 'finger iusty', it says
"No mail". A 'strace finger iusty' shows that it stats /var/mail/iusty, which
under RedHat 6.0 stock install, doesn't exits. Currently I have linke
/var/spool/mail to /var/mail, but maybe it causes security problems

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 1999-07-28 16:07:59 UTC

Fixed in finger-0.10-25.