Quoting Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The bug system has not been working properly for a few days now, and I > have just turned it off. No new mail will be processed and the web > pages will not be updated. > > The problem is that (apparently) Linux 2.2 doesn't properly support > a.out binaries. The bug system uses a private copy of Smail3 to do > initial mail delivery (because of the incompatible command line of > Qmail). That copy of Smail3 was installed many years ago, and is > a.out. > > I have asked our system admins to switch back to 2.0 until they can > install Exim and we can change our configuration, or 2.2 can be made > to work properly for a.out programs. > > Until one of these things happens the bug system will be down. It is > also possible that it will be down for a week or so afterwards; the > messages we were getting from cron suggest that there may be a large > mess to clear up. It is possible that some messages have been lost. > > Thank you for your attention. > > Ian. >
The bug system (as currently packaged in potato by our very own Darren Benham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) works quite well with the version of exim in potato, and the version of perl in potato (none of which are a.out). I installed it here at my work (http://bugs.wordcruncher.com/) and it works just fine. I think now would be a good time to bring the bug system forward to the present, rather than reverting master to the dark ages of 2.0. -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen Web: http://www.xmission.com/~andersen/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons--
