Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 07:35:03 +0200 From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>, Andre.Albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de Subject: Re: conf/29699: Setting NO_MAILWRAPPER results in a system without working MTA Message-ID: <20010823073503.A15122@curry.mchp.siemens.de> In-Reply-To: <200108152350.f7FNo2o26457@freefall.freebsd.org>; from peter@wemm.org on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 04:50:02PM -0700 References: <200108152350.f7FNo2o26457@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Ruslan, Peter, any chance of getting this (or something similar)
into the tree before 4.4-RELEASE? Anything I can do to help?
Thanks,
-Andre
On Wed, 15-Aug-2001 at 16:50:02 -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR conf/29699; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> ...
>
> > The attached patch fixes this and the "old (potentially dangerous) setuid
> > binary" problem, but in a different way. With NO_MAILWRAPPER, we should
> > install sendmail(8) and friends into its canonical paths.
>
> This is even worse. If you have NO_SENDMAIL, then /usr/bin/newalises
> is not installed at all.
>
> If you are going to persist in this line, then you can allow the sendmail
> makefile to *also* install symlinks if NO_MAILWRAPPER is set.
>
> usr.sbin/sendmail/Makefile belongs to gshapiro now anyway.
>
> > Also, Peter, why did you drop the support for /usr/bin/hoststat and
> > /usr/sbin/purgestat in sendmail/Makefile 1.14 -> mailwrapper/Makefile 1.1
> > change?
>
> Because they weren't generally useful and we dont install .cf files with it
> active. Dont forget, purgestat and hoststat are aliases for
> sendmail -bh (hoststat) and sendmail -bH (purgestat).
>
> Anyway, I'd prefer something like this:
>
> Index: Makefile
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.sbin/mailwrapper/Makefile,v
> retrieving revision 1.8
> diff -u -r1.8 Makefile
> --- Makefile 2001/07/20 06:19:59 1.8
> +++ Makefile 2001/08/15 23:43:50
> @@ -1,19 +1,27 @@
> # $FreeBSD: src/usr.sbin/mailwrapper/Makefile,v 1.8 2001/07/20 06:19:59 obrien Exp $
>
> +.if !defined(NO_MAILWRAPPER)
> PROG= mailwrapper
> MAN= mailwrapper.8
>
> DPADD= ${LIBUTIL}
> LDADD= -lutil
> +.endif
>
> SYMLINKS= ${BINDIR}/mailwrapper /usr/sbin/sendmail \
> ${BINDIR}/mailwrapper /usr/bin/newaliases \
> ${BINDIR}/mailwrapper /usr/bin/mailq
>
> +.if defined(NO_MAILWRAPPER) && !defined(NO_SENDMAIL)
> +SYMLINKS+= /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail ${BINDIR}/mailwrapper
> +.endif
> +
> afterinstall:
> +.if !defined(NO_MAILWRAPPER)
> .if !exists(${DESTDIR}/etc/mail/mailer.conf)
> ${INSTALL} ${COPY} -o ${BINOWN} -g ${BINGRP} -m 644 \
> ${.CURDIR}/../../etc/mail/mailer.conf ${DESTDIR}/etc/mail
> +.endif
> .endif
>
> .include <bsd.prog.mk>
>
> peter@daintree[4:43pm]~src/usr.sbin/mailwrapper-145> make -i install NO_MAILWRAPPER=yes
> /usr/sbin/sendmail -> /usr/sbin/mailwrapper
> /usr/bin/newaliases -> /usr/sbin/mailwrapper
> /usr/bin/mailq -> /usr/sbin/mailwrapper
> /usr/sbin/mailwrapper -> /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
>
> And of course the corresponding change to usr.sbin/Makefile.
>
> Cheers,
> -Peter
> --
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