From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Mar 30 4:52:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pc3-cove5-0-cust178.bir.cable.ntl.com (pc3-cove5-0-cust178.bir.cable.ntl.com [213.105.113.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A44BD37B41C for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 04:52:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from ntlworld.com (alpha.private.lan [192.168.0.2]) by pc3-cove5-0-cust178.bir.cable.ntl.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2UCnsP01983; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 12:49:55 GMT (envelope-from ianjhart@ntlworld.com) Message-ID: <3CA5B472.88306E1C@ntlworld.com> Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 12:49:54 +0000 From: ian j hart X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andy Farkas Cc: Bill Swingle , pan , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: another way 4.5s is broken (user smmsp -> make installworld) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andy Farkas wrote: > > On 29 Mar 2002, Bill Swingle wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 06:07:49PM -0800, pan wrote: > > > What the problem was is that UPDATING and other notes mention > > > not that smmsp and mailmull are needed just to cvsup to stable > > > (haven't noticed anything here in stable about smmsp or mailnull > > > either) > > > > I agree, this should have been added to UPDATING. I'm sure this is just > > a symptom of warner being bogged down at the moment. Don't get too > > steamed :) > > > > -Bill > > > > BTW, this bit me too. > > > > I have marks as well. Perhaps this will help: > > --- UPDATING-orig Sat Mar 30 14:00:01 2002 > +++ UPDATING Sat Mar 30 14:32:19 2002 > @@ -9,6 +9,16 @@ > the common items quick how-tos, followed by entries for versions of > -current prior to 4.0 Release. > > +20020330: > + Due to the import of sendmail 8.12.2 two new usernames are > + required in order for it to run as a set-group-ID binary. > + Unfortunately, a 'make installworld' will attempt to set the > + owner:group of /var/spool/clientmqueue to the new names and > + will fail if nonexistent. > + > + Username 'smmsp' and groupname 'smmsp' should be created before > + doing an installworld. > + > 20020325: > sendmail 8.12.2 has been imported. The sendmail binary is no > longer a set-user-ID root binary and the infrastructure to support > As Greg Shapiro pointed out to me, this is in the handbook, section 19.4.3. This will only bite you if your system is prior to 4.5-RELEASE. That's when the new users were added. While I'm here 4.5 RELEASE doesn't seem to be documented in UPDATING. -- ian j hart To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message