>Number: 355 >Category: gnats >Synopsis: Mail agent output is forwarded by gnatsd >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: unassigned >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: net >Arrival-Date: Mon Mar 04 04:22:36 -0500 2002 >Originator: Andrew Gray >Release: 3.999.1 >Organization: >Environment: Intel, Linux 2.4.2-2 >Description: If the mail agent used to send notification of edits to a PR generates output then that output is forwarded to the gnatsd client. This output is not expected by the client. (For example, Gnatsweb returns to the user a page headed "Error" with the text "Unparseable reply from gnatsd".) >How-To-Repeat: Add or edit the following line to the categories file: test:*Test Category:gnats-admin:userone Add the following lines to the responsible file: userone:User number one:<bad email address> Submit a PR in the test category. Connect to the gnatsd server using a telnet client and perform any necessary authentication. Issue the following commands: repl <pr_number> State 212 Ok. closed . 213 Ok, now send the field change reason. Testing. . /home/gnats/dead.letter... Saved message in /home/gnats/dead.letter 210 Ok. >Fix: Change the gnats/mail-agent.sh source file to redirect the standard output of the mail agent to /dev/null: Index: mail-agent.sh =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/gnats/gnats/gnats/mail-agent.sh,v retrieving revision 1.1 diff -u -p -r1.1 mail-agent.sh --- mail-agent.sh 22 Dec 1999 04:44:38 -0000 1.1 +++ mail-agent.sh 4 Mar 2002 09:21:03 -0000 @@ -25,4 +25,4 @@ MAIL_AGENT="xDEFAULT_MAIL_AGENTx" -exec $MAIL_AGENT $@ +exec $MAIL_AGENT $@ > /dev/null >Unformatted: _______________________________________________ Gnats-prs mailing list Gnats-prs@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnats-prs