Debian bug report logs - #1780, boring messages

Subject: Bug#1780: mh looks in the wrong place for 'more'
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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 00:54:14 -0700
From: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>

Package: mh
Version: 6.8.3-2

The 0.93R6 MH mail user interface package causes it to be impossible to
read any mail, since the default moreproc is '/usr/bin/more', and the current
Debian release appears to put more in '/bin/more' instead.  You end up with
errors like:

	bdale@chunks:~: show
	(Message inbox:386)
	show: unable to exec /usr/bin/more: No such file or directory
	bdale@chunks:~:

The fix is probably to change the file conf/MH in the source tree, whacking
the line

	options SYS5 MORE='"/usr/bin/more"' RENAME SYS5DIR UNISTD SVR4 MIME

to point to the right location for more.

It is possible to work around this defect by specifying an explicit path for
more in the user's .mh_profile:

	moreproc: /bin/more

But this shouldn't be necessary.

Bdale

From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
Subject: Bug#1780: Acknowledgement (was: mh looks in the wrong place for 'more')
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Subject: Bug#1780: mh looks in the wrong place for 'more'
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From: Siggy Brentrup <bsb@uni-muenster.de>
To: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>, debian-bugs@Pixar.com
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Bdale Garbee writes:
>It is possible to work around this defect by specifying an explicit path for
>more in the user's .mh_profile:
>
>	moreproc: /bin/more

Dunno much about MH but your might consider the following for a workaround:
If there is a global config file for mh, you may put it there for the benefit of
all users on your system.
If there is no such file, make /usr/bin/more a symbolic link to /bin/more until
the bug gets fixed.

-- Siggy

From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: Siggy Brentrup <bsb@uni-muenster.de>
Subject: Bug#1780: Info received (was Bug#1780: mh looks in the wrong place for 'more')
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