From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 9 15:10:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDDB837B400 for ; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 15:10:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA29602; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 15:10:13 -0700 Message-ID: <3CB366C4.5060204@owt.com> Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 15:10:12 -0700 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Danny Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: smmsp References: <001201c1e00b$431e5d10$020144c0@danny> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message