Description of problem: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Unmount up2date spool directory 2. Run 'up2date -l' Actual results: Regardless of the actually spool directory location, up2date will always complain about /var/spool/up2date not being available. The following is the last few lines of a 'strace -s1500 up2date -l': read(3, "", 4096) = 0 close(3) = 0 munmap(0xb75bb000, 4096) = 0 geteuid32() = 0 ioctl(1, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0 access("/stage/up2date/rhel-i386-es-4/", X_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) write(1, "The storage directory /var/spool/up2date could not be found, or was not\naccessable.", 83The storage directory /var/spool/up2date could not be found, or was not accessable.) = 83 write(1, "\n", 1 ) = 1 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, NULL, {0x809eb30, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x3f0f88}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0 exit_group(1) = ? Expected results: An error stating '/stage/up2date/rhel-i386-es-4/' was not found. Additional info:
Another way to describe the problem: If /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date contains the line: storageDir=/path/to/nonexistingdir up2date will report "The storage directory /var/spool/up2date could not be found, or was not accessable" It should read: "The storage directory /path/to/nonexistingdir could not be found, or was not accessable"
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