From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020611 Description of problem: I know "mimencode" is part of the deprecated package "metamail" but I'm using a password generating script for random password generation on one of the Red Hat Linux machines I administrate. ( In those password scripts, I use the trick "head -c 6 /dev/urandom |mimencode" to fetch a nice series of random characters, but without a tool like mimencode I cannot do this. ) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. "head -c 6 /dev/urandom |mimencode" 2. 3. Actual Results: bash: mimencode: command not found Expected Results: I expect some nice random characters to appear. :-) Additional info:
Closing this 'bug'; it never really was a bug.