nbsmtp looks for config file in the wrong place

[pieter_dt]

Binary package hint: nbsmtp

On hardy nbsmtp out of the box comes with a config file in /etc: /etc/nbsmtprc
but it fails to read it during execution, and instead looks for /usr/etc/nbsmtprc

From strace it can be seen to be looking in the wrong place:
brk(0) = 0x804e000
brk(0x806f000) = 0x806f000
open("/usr/etc/nbsmtprc", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

no attempts are seen to open /etc/nbsmtprc

[David Frey (dpfrey)]

I also discovered that nbsmtp wasn't reading my /etc/nbsmtprc file. I looked at the nbsmtprc source a bit and found this block of code at line 67 of fileconfig.c:

asprintf(&local_tmp_buf,"%s/nbsmtprc",SYSCONFDIR);

I'm not really sure what defines SYSCONFDIR, but a little bit of searching uncovered a few suspicious lines in the configure file:

bindir='${exec_prefix}/bin'
sbindir='${exec_prefix}/sbin'
libexecdir='${exec_prefix}/libexec'
datadir='${prefix}/share'
sysconfdir='${prefix}/etc'

If ${prefix} is empty then datadir=/share, but if ${prefix} is "/usr", then sysconfdir=/usr/etc. It seems like the latter case is what is happening.

Hopefully someone who knows a little bit more about Linux applications and package building can translate this information into a fix.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

This package has been removed from the archive in Lucid and subsequently I am setting this bug's status to Won't Fix. Please submit any bugs about other packages that you may experience in the future.