Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 10:20:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Somers <brian@freebsd-services.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/30546: Message-ID: <200109131720.f8DHK1V25870@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/30546; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Brian Somers <brian@freebsd-services.com>
To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@freebsd-services.com
Subject: Re: bin/30546:
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 18:15:05 +0100
> >Number: 30546
> >Category: bin
[.....]
> This patch does a number of things:
[.....]
> -if [ -r /etc/mail/sendmail.cf ]; then
> - case ${sendmail_enable} in
> +case ${sendmail_enable} in
> +[Yy][Ee][Ss])
> + echo -n ' sendmail'; sendmail ${sendmail_flags}
> + ;;
> +*)
> + case ${sendmail_outbound_enable} in
> [Yy][Ee][Ss])
> echo -n ' sendmail'
> - /usr/sbin/sendmail ${sendmail_flags}
> - ;;
[.....]
Be careful here. When sendmail gets a HUP, it re-execs itself, but
*only* if argv[0] is an absolute path. Your patch breaks sendmail's
ability to process HUPs.
I don't know if any other daemons behave like this.
--
Brian <brian@freebsd-services.com> <brian@Awfulhak.org>
http://www.freebsd-services.com/ <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org>
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