Bug 4218 – finger tryes to access /var/mail/<user> instead of /var/spool/mail/<user>

Bug 4218 - finger tryes to access /var/mail/<user> instead of /var/spool/mail/<user>

Summary:	finger tryes to access /var/mail/<user> instead of /var/spool/mail/<user>

Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE

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

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Reported:	1999-07-27 08:11 EDT by iusty
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	1999-07-28 12:07:04 EDT
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Description iusty 1999-07-27 08:11:40 EDT

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 12:07:59 EDT

Fixed in finger-0.10-25.

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