Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 13:40:02 -0800 (PST) From: Tim Gustafson <tim@falconsoft.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/23576: mail.local installed with wrong permissions in make world Message-ID: <200012162140.eBGLe2W07532@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR misc/23576; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Tim Gustafson <tim@falconsoft.com>
To: dima@unixfreak.org (Dima Dorfman)
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/23576: mail.local installed with wrong permissions in
make world
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 16:33:17 -0500
> > >Number: 23576
> > >Category: misc
> > >Synopsis: mail.local installed with wrong permissions in make world
> > >Description:
> > The 4.2-STABLE release installed mail.local with 555 permissions.
>
>This is the intended behavior. Read the 20001020 entry in
>src/UPDATING. On about the fourth line, it says:
>
> o mail.local(8) is no longer installed as a set-user-id binary.
>
>As to why it doesn't work for you, my only guess is that you forgot to
>run mergemaster (which is required as part of the upgrade process
>unless you're *really* sure nothing important changed--obviously, this
>is not the case).
ah-so. I was not aware of this script. :) I don't think it helped me too
much, though, since my sendmail.cf file is very different than the default
one. I'll have to modify it by hand, as "man mergemaster" explains.
Tim
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