Bug 35991 – publicfile message type

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: VERIFIED TEST-REQUEST

[Description Jean-Michel Smith 2003-12-17 05:20:17 UTC]

The final message produced by the ebuild on how to activate the server contains a type, resulting in errors if one cuts and pastes the command into a terminall session and runs it.  The ebuild message is:

 httpd and ftpd are serving out of /home/public.
 remember to start the servers with:
   ln -s /home/public/httpd /home/public/home/ftpd /service

THE FIX:  The message should read instead:

 httpd and ftpd are serving out of /home/public.
 remember to start the servers with:
   ln -s /home/public/httpd /home/public/ftpd /service

The extraneous 'home' in /home/public/home/ftpd needs to be removed, so that it simply reads /home/public/ftpd


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge publicfile
2. insure that svscan is running
3. execute the ln -s command as displayed
4. see console messages appear reporting that ftpd does not exist

Actual Results:  
ftpd does not exist messages spam the console

Expected Results:  
No messages should appear, the procedure should work

[Comment 1 Tony Vroon (RETIRED) 2003-12-17 12:35:56 UTC]

Created attachment 22377 [details, diff]
publicfile-0.52.ebuild.diff

This does what is asked, changing the pkg_postinst of net-www/publicfile-0.52

[Comment 2 Stuart Herbert (RETIRED) 2004-04-23 04:03:05 UTC]

Hiya,

I've made the requested fix in Portage; the updated ebuild should appear on a local rsync mirror in about an hour.

Could you take a look, and confirm that this bug is fixed please?

Thanks,
Stu

[Comment 3 Jean-Michel Smith 2004-04-23 11:12:37 UTC]

works like I charm!

I would suggest unmasking it right away, as the old error messages made stopping svscan with the bad direcctory entry nearly impossible (unless you open a new console)

[Comment 4 Stuart Herbert (RETIRED) 2004-04-23 12:50:23 UTC]

It's unmasked now.

Thanks for the feedback!
Stu

[Comment 5 Stuart Herbert (RETIRED) 2004-06-26 17:52:37 UTC]

Closing bug.