Bug 749203 - mailq manpage does not display
Summary: mailq manpage does not display
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: postfix
Version: 5.5
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Jaroslav Škarvada
QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On: 664627
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-10-26 13:24 UTC by Peter Schiffer
Modified: 2011-10-26 17:32 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of: 664627
Environment:
Last Closed: 2011-10-26 17:31:03 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
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Description Peter Schiffer 2011-10-26 13:24:14 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #664627 +++

Description of problem:
Cannot display manpage for postfix's mailq(1) command.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
postfix-2.3.3-2.1.el5_2

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum install postfix && alternatives --set mta /usr/bin/sendmail.postfix && man mailq
2. Observe that "man mailq" fails (see below).

  
Actual results:
[root@mail ~]# man mailq
fopen: No such file or directory
Cannot open man page /usr/share/man/man1/sendmail.1.gz
No manual entry for mailq
[root@mail ~]#

Expected results:
[root@mail ~]# man mailq
(mailq manpage is displayed)

Additional info:
I think the "/usr/share/man/man1/mailq.postfix.1.gz" file is broken: it references "man1/sendmail.1", but the filesystem only has a "/usr/share/man/man8/sendmail.8.gz". Either that, or the sendmail manpage should be in category 1, not 8.

--- Additional comment from billycoutsis on 2010-12-20 20:57:19 EST ---

This bug may be CentOS-specific. My bad.

--- Additional comment from mstevens on 2011-07-15 08:21:08 EDT ---

(In reply to comment #1)
> This bug may be CentOS-specific. My bad.

I'm also seeing this in "real" RHEL 5

--- Additional comment from pm-rhel on 2011-09-22 20:13:41 EDT ---

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated in the
current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to address this
request at this time. Red Hat invites you to ask your support
representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant,
in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

--- Additional comment from loye.young on 2011-09-23 06:43:39 EDT ---

The following is a work around. 

<code>
ln -s /usr/share/man/man1/sendmail.postfix.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/sendmail.1.gz
</code>

A symlink could be distributed with an updated rpm.

--- Additional comment from jskarvad on 2011-09-26 09:24:57 EDT ---

Created attachment 524904 [details]
Backported patch

There is same issue with newaliases. The backported patch should fix it all.


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