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From: Tim Gustafson <tim@falconsoft.com>
Subject: Re: misc/23576: mail.local installed with wrong permissions in
  make world
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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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