Bug 78159 - missing elinks dependency
Summary: missing elinks dependency
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: httpd
Version: 9
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Joe Orton
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Reported: 2002-11-19 16:13 UTC by Chris Ricker
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:48 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: 2.0.40-17
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Last Closed: 2003-05-19 09:15:37 UTC
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Description Chris Ricker 2002-11-19 16:13:47 UTC 
The httpd RPM should Require elinks, since /usr/sbin/apachectl runs "links
-dump" to access status reports. The httpd spec currently isn't requiring
elinks, so things like

/etc/init.d/httpd fullstatus

won't always work
Comment 1 Joe Orton 2002-11-25 14:19:41 UTC 
I think it would be a overkill to enforce a package dependency for this rather
obscure feature; better to just print "elinks package missing" if ! test -x
/usr/bin/links.  (especially since server-status isn't enabled in the default
httpd.conf)
Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2002-12-19 16:27:48 UTC 
If links isn't installed, you can always telnet to the port and dump the output ;)
Comment 3 Joe Orton 2003-05-19 09:15:37 UTC 
This was fixed in 2.0.40-17, thanks for the report.
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