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FS#22626 - [fcron] Inconsistency concerning sendmail's to be or not to be

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Daniel Lublin (quite) - Thursday, 27 January 2011, 12:52 GMT
Last edited by Thorsten Töpper (Atsutane) - Sunday, 20 March 2011, 15:10 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Thorsten Töpper (Atsutane)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Low
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

The fcron.install says "By default fcron uses /usr/sbin/sendmail"
But pkgbuild runs configure --without-sendmail, in an attempt
to disable sendmail completely. Perhaps skip this configure flag?
As the intention seems to be that we should indeed use sendmail.

(In addition, there seems to be a bug in fcron which causes this
flag to set sendmail path to "no" (!); we would also avoid this
bug until it gets fixed).
This task depends upon

Closed by  Thorsten Töpper (Atsutane)
Sunday, 20 March 2011, 15:10 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Thorsten Töpper (Atsutane) - Saturday, 29 January 2011, 23:07 GMT
Just made a couple of tests in a virtual machine, if the flag is removed the --with-sendmail=<path> flag has to be set, the result is the same, fcron complains about a missing "no" and tries to send a mail using the given <path>, a missing sendmail results in another complaint. So the result is the same, there'll always be at least one complaint when the user does not want to use this feature - no matter what flag or configuration option is set.

Except notifying upstream of this and/or write a patch (both to the fcron-dev ml) we can't do something for now.

If you want to write a patch, the git repository is available at http://git.tuxfamily.org/fcron/fcron.git

I'll leave the ticket open and inform upstream by Wednesday if you don't want to do so and send a patch with that report.
Comment by Daniel Lublin (quite) - Saturday, 29 January 2011, 23:55 GMT
Again, as I said, in fcron.install it says that fcron uses sendmail
by default, so why not remove the any kind of flag trying to keep
it from doing that? I tried without any --with/without-sendmail
flag, and it seems fine.

Upstream, Thibault, knew about it a while ago, and I bumped him
about it yesterday. No response yet.

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.fcron.general/45
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Sunday, 30 January 2011, 09:48 GMT
i was hit this bug when i moved to fcron. I was pissed off my that message and i added the full path to sendmail even that in the manual it said that is the default location.

just remove that flag and let it in the way is configured by default.

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