Bug 23640

Summary:	/etc/host.conf error message concerning nospoof and spoofalert options
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Sébastien Morin <sebsweb>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	yvesbrungard
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	Warning message printed before executing the screenfetch command

Description Sébastien Morin 2018-10-05 06:51:03 CEST

Description of problem:
On Mageia Cauldron, using commands such as "urpmi <package_name>" to install a package, or start updates, prints the following warning message:

/etc/host.conf : ligne 3 : commande erronée« nospoof on »
/etc/host.conf : ligne 4 : commande erronée« spoofalert on »

Then, urpmi (or any program you are using in CLI) will go on with its job, and complete the job without any problem.
This warning message doesn't seem to have any consequence, and the system is running as expected. 


How reproducible:
I don't usually use a great deal of commands, but this warning message is printed everytime I run urpmi, and even when I run screenfetch for instance.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Mageia6 from Mageia-6-x86_64-DVD.iso in a Virtualbox machine.
2. Migrate to Cauldron following https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Cauldron#How_to_update_to_Mageia_Cauldron
3. After the upgrade is finished, experiment using urpmi to install any software and see the warning message concerning "bad commands" in /etc/host.conf

Comment 1 Sébastien Morin 2018-10-05 06:52:50 CEST

Created attachment 10393 [details]
Warning message printed before executing the screenfetch command

Comment 2 papoteur 2018-10-05 08:32:14 CEST

See #21621

CC: (none) => yves.brungard_mageia

Comment 3 papoteur 2018-10-05 08:33:30 CEST

msec package has to be improved to delete config lines in /etc/host.conf

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 21621 ***

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => DUPLICATE