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From: Brian Somers <brian@freebsd-services.com>
Subject: Re: bin/30546: 
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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.
 
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