Bug 99189
| Summary: | /etc/mail/statistics should be under /var instead | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Steve Coile <scoile> |
| Component: | sendmail | Assignee: | Florian La Roche <laroche> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | psklenar |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-01-13 09:40:43 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Other state files that really should be under /var: - /etc/adjtime - /etc/ioctl.save - /etc/ioctl.save should be gone with a current Fedora Core install. Fixed in rawhide in rpm sendmail-8.12.10-7 or newer. The statistics file is located in /var/log/mail, now. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: Sendmail appears to be configured by default to place a state file under /etc instead of under /var, where state belongs. Please relocate /etc/mail/statistics to an appropriate location under /var, such as under /var/run. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. grep statistics /etc/sendmail.cf 2. 3. Actual Results: ) StatusFile=/etc/mail/statistics Expected Results: O StatusFile=/var/run/statistics Additional info: