Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 09:23:58 +0300 From: Toomas Tamm <toomas@chem.helsinki.fi> To: bugs@freebsd.org Cc: toomas@neon.pc.helsinki.fi Subject: Mail dumps core if USER not set Message-ID: <323F957E.18BA2A84@chem.helsinki.fi>
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Hello! I am having trouble submitting this bug report because no-one seems consier it 'theirs'. Maybe you can suggest some address who might be interested? The RedHat Linux (Rembrandt 3.0.3) appears to use BSD mail (Mail?) program as the command-line mail user agent. However since Linux is sysV'ish, there are situations where the USER environment variable is not set. One of these is when a script is run by cron (vixie cron under this Linux). When the USER is not set, the mail program dumps core, instead of producing an intelligent error message. This was not trivial to figure out, since under a login shell, USER is always set properly. It can be easily verified, however, by unset'ing USER under a login shell. If you care, please record this bug and possibly take action. Sincerely, -- Toomas Tamm e-mail: toomas@chem.helsinki.fi P.O.Box 55 / Department of Chemistry voice: INT+358+9-191-40173 FIN-00014 University of Helsinki fax: INT+358+9-191-40169 FINLAND http://www.chem.helsinki.fi/~toomas/
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