Subject: misc/29526: countmail gives erroe message on nonexistent mail-spool-file
To: None <misc-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: None <a_eder_muc@web.de>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 02/25/2005 11:20:01
>Number: 29526
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: countmail gives erroe message on nonexistent mail-spool-file
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: misc-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Fri Feb 25 11:20:00 +0000 2005
>Originator: Andreas Eder
>Release: 2.0
>Organization:
>Environment:
NetBSD acer 2.0 NetBSD 2.0 (ACER) #3: Thu Feb 24 16:48:40 CET 2005 root@acer:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/ACER i386
>Description:
countmail gives an errormesasge on a nonexistent mail spool file
countmail
from: can't read /var/mail/are: No such file or directory
ZERO!
ZERO NEW MAIL MESSAGES!
HAHAHAHAHA!
>How-To-Repeat:
remove your empty spool file.
Some mailers do this - some don't :-)
>Fix:
chabge line 51 from
set -- `from | wc -l`
to
set -- `from 2>/dev/null |wc -l`