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Date:      Tue, 09 Apr 2002 15:10:12 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To:        Danny <eyezonme@gmx.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: smmsp
Message-ID:  <3CB366C4.5060204@owt.com>
References:  <001201c1e00b$431e5d10$020144c0@danny>

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Danny wrote:

> I just did a cvsup/make world, and the system halted while beginning to
> install the freshly built src because of the lack of user 'smmsp'. After
> creating the user (and group of the same name) things went fine, but I'm
> curious as to what the purpose of this username is, and why the install
> didn't create the user on its own. Thanks


That is something that mergemaster would do for you. The requirement 
was added when the new sendmail was added. It no longer runs as a 
higher system level process and needs the new user.

If you had updated to 4.5-stable before that, you would have had smmsp 
added to your system before it was needed by the installworld. You 
were just a little bit slow tracking stable.


Kent

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Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html


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