From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 28 12:15:30 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3D4C37B401 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 12:15:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from sage-american.com (adsl-65-71-135-139.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [65.71.135.139]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B962D43F85 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 12:15:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Received: from sagea (sagea.sage-american [192.168.0.3]) by sage-american.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id h1SKFIFU014739; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 14:15:18 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20030228141516.01e1a350@sage-one.net> X-Sender: jackstone@sage-one.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 14:15:16 -0600 To: Steve Warwick , From: "Jack L. Stone" Subject: Re: Upgrade to 4.7 possible? In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.3 required=4.5 tests=IN_REP_TO,SPAM_PHRASE_01_02 version=2.44-sageamerules_v1 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 At 11:38 AM 2.28.2003 -0800, Steve Warwick wrote: >Hi again, > >I am looking at (finally) upgrading from 4.3 to 4.7 and before I dive in, >has anyone had the pleasure of doing this? Did it go OK? Are there any >gotchas to watch out for? > >Suggestions and upgrade experiences welocome :) > > >Steve > Yes, indeed. These are among the biggest you will have to contend with: ========================================================= 20020404: Due to the import of sendmail 8.12.2 (see 20020325 entry), a new user and group are required in order for sendmail to run as a set-group-ID binary. A 'make installworld' will use the new user and group to set the owner and group of /var/spool/clientmqueue and will fail if the new user and group do not exist. The 'smmsp' user and group must be merged from src/etc/group and src/etc/master.passwd before using 'make installworld'. 'mergemaster -p' will do this. You may need to install mergemaster before this will work if you are updating from a very old version of stable. This can be done with: cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/mergemaster; make all install 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 command line mail submission has changed. Be sure to run mergemaster (especially for updating /etc/rc, /etc/defaults/rc.conf, and /etc/mail) and read /etc/mail/README for more details. ====================================================================== Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net jackstone@sage-one.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message