#1076 closed defect (wontfix)
BASH mailcheck bug
| Reported by: | Owned by: | ||
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| Priority: | lowest | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Book | Version: | 6.0 |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
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Description
MAILCHECK does not work correctly on bash (both 2.05b and 3.0) this guy has a patch:
http://www.savarese.org/patches/bash.html http://www.savarese.org/downloads/patches/bash-2.05b-mailcheck.patch
Change History (4)
comment:1 by , 20 years ago
comment:2 by , 20 years ago
please forget my comments about the noatime and no available network, just traced it down to an iptables rule that was way too tight: it seems that login wants to connect to 127.0.0.1:111 (sunrpc) and the rule was dropping all this traffic I can't see why login would want to connect to this port, anyone?
the mailcheck problem is still valid though....
comment:3 by , 20 years ago
| Resolution: | → wontfix |
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| Status: | new → closed |
I'm closing as WONTFIX, simply because it's a really minor bug in bash (IMO). I emailed the original author of the patch and asked him to submit it upstream so if it gets applied, we'll pick it up on the next upstream release.
I stumbled across this when I added the noatime mount option to my root partition and then booting without an available network.
Didn't look into the 'no available network' situation, just applied the patch and disabled the mailcheck by adding to /etc/profile the following line: export MAILCHECK=-1