Bug 2764 – _PATH_MAILDIR is /var/mail, should be /var/spool/mail

Bug 2764 - _PATH_MAILDIR is /var/mail, should be /var/spool/mail

Summary:	_PATH_MAILDIR is /var/mail, should be /var/spool/mail

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	glibc (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Cristian Gafton
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Duplicates:	2730 4722 (view as bug list)
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Reported:	1999-05-12 11:14 EDT by Jeff Johnson
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Last Closed:	1999-07-02 18:00:18 EDT
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Description Jeff Johnson 1999-05-12 11:14:36 EDT

_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 11:16:59 EDT

*** 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 18:00:59 EDT

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 10:05:59 EDT

*** 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)

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