NetBSD Problem Report #13549

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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 02:09:09 +0200 (CEST)
From: Christian Groessler <cpg@aladdin.de>
Reply-To: cpg@aladdin.de
To: gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org
Subject: sendmail(8) refers to non-existent binmail(1)
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>Number:         13549
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       sendmail(8) refers to non-existent binmail(1)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    misc-bug-people
>State:          closed
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jul 25 00:06:00 +0000 2001
>Closed-Date:    Wed Jul 25 00:11:40 +0000 2001
>Last-Modified:  Wed Jul 25 00:41:00 +0000 2001
>Originator:     Christian Groessler
>Release:        Jul-18-2001
>Organization:

>Environment:

System: NetBSD gibbon 1.5W NetBSD 1.5W (GIBBON) #0: Wed Jul 18 01:54:29 CEST 2001 chris@gibbon.cnet.aladdin.de:/usr/oth2/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GIBBON i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
	man sendmail presents in its "see also" section binmail(1)
There is no binmail(1) man page, not even a binmail program (at least
I didn't find it)
>How-To-Repeat:
	type "man sendmail" and browse to section "SEE ALSO"
>Fix:
	fix man page or provide man page and executble of "binmail"
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: itojun 
State-Changed-When: Tue Jul 24 17:11:33 PDT 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
fixed on current. 

From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>
To: Christian Groessler <cpg@aladdin.de>
Cc: gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org
Subject: Re: misc/13549: sendmail(8) refers to non-existent binmail(1)
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 17:44:12 -0700 (PDT)

 > >Synopsis:       sendmail(8) refers to non-existent binmail(1)

 > 	fix man page or provide man page and executble of "binmail"

 Under SVR4 (I believe), binmail is the same as /bin/mail; I think one
 replacement on our system is /usr/libexec/mail.local (even though the
 syntax is different). So maybe the manpage should be fixed with:

 --- /usr/src/gnu/dist/sendmail/sendmail/sendmail.8      Fri Apr  6 21:04:05 2001
 +++ netbsd/sendmail.8   Tue Jul 24 17:39:48 2001
 @@ -666,12 +666,12 @@
   /var/spool/mqueue/*
  temp files
  .SH SEE ALSO
 -binmail(1),
  mail(1),
  rmail(1),
  syslog(3),
  aliases(5),
  mailaddr(7),
 +mail.local(8),
  rc(8)
  .PP
  DARPA 

    Jeremy C. Reed
    http://www.reedmedia.net/

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