Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 10:26:19 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@FreeBSD.ORG>, dougb@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@FreeBSD.ORG>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: smmsp user Message-ID: <20020418072619.GE98788@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <15550.1234.653185.743707@horsey.gshapiro.net> References: <15549.60147.206239.810195@horsey.gshapiro.net> <Pine.BSF.4.33.0204180857210.71410-100000@backup.af.speednet.com.au> <15550.1234.653185.743707@horsey.gshapiro.net>
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--z0eOaCaDLjvTGF2l Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 04:27:14PM -0700, Gregory Neil Shapiro wrote: > andyf> It would be A Good Thing(tm) if this were fixed (ie. installworld = not > andyf> barfing). Otherwise, I predict that this will rise to FAQ #1. >=20 > The directory is needed and the ownership is important. The handbook > already warns users updating from source to update the file. Now UPDATING > does as well. Nothing can really be fixed beyond possibly adding a featu= re > to mtree to obey #ifdef's for users who define NO_SENDMAIL. If you > want such a feature, a PR (with a patch to mtree) could be filed for the > maintainer of mtree. >=20 We can easily add a glue to the etc/Makefile's distrib-dirs target so that it pre-checks that these users exist, and if they don't, suggests manually updating the passwd database or using the mergemaster(8)'s -p option. The last one could be tricky if the installed mergemaster(8) does not have it. Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age --z0eOaCaDLjvTGF2l Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8vnUaUkv4P6juNwoRAkkwAJwMa4Dr+4gUhYisUceRQ7HF+jkn0QCeNAqN Y9KLXZPu2G2o+y+w5jXJAr8= =V+mC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --z0eOaCaDLjvTGF2l-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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