Your message dated Mon, 31 May 1999 18:17:27 +0200 (CET) with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Closing this bug (/etc/aliases not being there, etc. etc). has caused the attached bug report to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what I'm talking about this indicates a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact me immediately.) Ian Jackson (administrator, Debian bugs database) Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 16 May 1998 21:58:22 +0000 Received: (qmail 23092 invoked from network); 16 May 1998 21:58:22 -0000 Received: from dcsun7.comp.brad.ac.uk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by debian.novare.net with SMTP; 16 May 1998 21:58:22 -0000 Received: from dcsun4.comp.brad.ac.uk (dcsun4.comp.brad.ac.uk [143.53.28.201]) by dcsun7.comp.brad.ac.uk (8.8.5/8.8.0) with ESMTP id WAA28838 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sat, 16 May 1998 22:58:19 +0100 (BST) Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by dcsun4.comp.brad.ac.uk (8.8.0/8.7.3) id WAA15216; Sat, 16 May 1998 22:58:17 +0100 (BST) Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: smartlist: don't die if /etc/aliases is not a file Mail-Copies-To: never From: James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 16 May 1998 22:58:17 +0100 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lines: 17 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.9/Emacs 19.34 Package: smartlist Version: 3.10.7-4 Severity: wishlist An install of smartlist died flaming death recently because /etc/aliases is a directory on this system not a file. Although /etc/aliases should be a file according to policy (it's not my machine, I just upgrade packages on it, I can't force them to follow policy, even if I were so inclined), it would be nice if smartlist didn't die, but rather ensured /etc/aliases was a file before trying to write to it. Also is there really any value in auto-installing this one alias? -- James ~Yawn And Walk North~
