Debian Bug report logs - #48614
smail: postinst leaves MTA broken if xinetd is in use

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: ron@microtronics.com.au

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: smail: postinst leaves MTA broken if xinetd is in use

Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 10:46:17 +0930 (CST)

Package: smail
Version: 3.2.0.102-2
Severity: important

ObSeverity: This should be quite easy to fix but I do consider it release
            critical.

If you really must call kill -HUP `pidof inetd` in the postinst at least
check first that it is running.  The existance of inetd.conf is NOT enough
to know this.

For users of xinetd (and other inetd alikes) this call to kill will fail
(`pidof inetd` == "") and prevent configuration of smail on upgrade,
leaving the system with a broken MTA.

  Ron.

-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux od 2.2.12 #1 Fri Sep 3 15:48:04 CST 1999 i486 unknown

Versions of the packages smail depends on:
ii  cron            3.0pl1-53      management of regular background processing
ii  libc6           2.1.2-6        GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone
ii  libident        0.22-1         simple RFC1413 client library - runtime
ii  libwrap0        7.6-1.1        Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers library
ii  util-linux      2.9x-1         Miscellaneous system utilities.

Message #10 received at 48614@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>

To: 48614@bugs.debian.org, shorty@debian.org

Subject: smail & its postinst

Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 14:05:10 +0100

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Hi,

i've attached a new postinst that should correct the problem (#48614)
It does use /etc/init/inetd reload & /etc/init.d/xinetd reload.

You only need to depend on the right netbase (>= 3.16-1) (to be sure that
/etc/init.d/inetd does exist) ...

Christian, can you do a NMU with this postinst (you've done the last
upload already) ? I've tried to NMU it myself but the build does fail
(there's no smail binary installed in debian/tmp/usr/sbin) ...

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog -=- http://tux.u-strasbg.fr/~raphael/
<pub> CDs Debian : http://tux.u-strasbg.fr/~raphael/debian/#cd </pub>

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Message #15 received at 48614@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>

To: Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>, 48614@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#48614: smail & its postinst

Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 18:48:52 +0100

On 99-12-20 Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> i've attached a new postinst that should correct the problem (#48614)
> It does use /etc/init/inetd reload & /etc/init.d/xinetd reload.

Oh, thanks for fixing this.

> You only need to depend on the right netbase (>= 3.16-1) (to be sure that
> /etc/init.d/inetd does exist) ...

Well, should be no problem.

> Christian, can you do a NMU with this postinst (you've done the last
> upload already) ? I've tried to NMU it myself but the build does fail
> (there's no smail binary installed in debian/tmp/usr/sbin) ...

I can do so, but first I will contact Soenke in IRC to check if it's
okay for him. Then I will NMU the package.

Ciao
     Christian
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* Christian Kurz                          Debian Developer/QA-Team *
*               Use Debian - a free Operating System               *
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Message #20 received at 48614@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>

To: Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>

Cc: 48614@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: smail & its postinst

Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 12:46:58 +0100

On 99-12-20 Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Christian, can you do a NMU with this postinst (you've done the last
> upload already) ? I've tried to NMU it myself but the build does fail
> (there's no smail binary installed in debian/tmp/usr/sbin) ...

I won't make a NMU as Soenke currenlty updates his build-system and then
will build new smail-debs himself. So we only need to wait some time to
get a fixed package.

Ciao
     Christian
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* Christian Kurz                          Debian Developer/QA-Team *
*               Use Debian - a free Operating System               *
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Message #27 received at 48614-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>

To: 48614-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: This bug is fixed smail (3.2.0.102-2.1)

Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 09:32:19 +0200 (CEST)

This bug is fixed smail (3.2.0.102-2.1) that is already in woody.

cu,
Adrian

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