When the redhat update agent is run for the very first time, it wipes out the user's ~/.mailcap file, replacing it with two new lines for the update manager. Once the two lines are in ~/.mailcap, the problem goes away. Not sure where the bug is, since the /sbin/up2date script appears to try to open the .mailcap in "w+" mode.. maybe this is not a valid mode in Pythonspeak? Cheers mlord
Ahh.. looked in the Python references, and the "w+" mode means "truncate". This script /usr/sbin/up2date should be using "w" instead of "w+" when opening the ~/.mailcap file for updating!! -ml
Ooopps.. meant to say that open mode should be "a", not "w" or "w+"!!
this is very true. fixed for 6.2.