Bug 78159

Summary:	missing elinks dependency
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Chris Ricker <chris.ricker>
Component:	httpd	Assignee:	Joe Orton <jorton>
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Hardware:	i386
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Fixed In Version:	2.0.40-17	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Chris Ricker 2002-11-19 16:13:47 UTC

The httpd RPM should Require elinks, since /usr/sbin/apachectl runs "links
-dump" to access status reports. The httpd spec currently isn't requiring
elinks, so things like

/etc/init.d/httpd fullstatus

won't always work

Comment 1 Joe Orton 2002-11-25 14:19:41 UTC

I think it would be a overkill to enforce a package dependency for this rather
obscure feature; better to just print "elinks package missing" if ! test -x
/usr/bin/links.  (especially since server-status isn't enabled in the default
httpd.conf)

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2002-12-19 16:27:48 UTC

If links isn't installed, you can always telnet to the port and dump the output ;)

Comment 3 Joe Orton 2003-05-19 09:15:37 UTC

This was fixed in 2.0.40-17, thanks for the report.