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Date:      Sat, 30 Mar 2002 14:35:55 +1100 (EST)
From:      Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au>
To:        Bill Swingle <unfurl@dub.net>
Cc:        pan <pan@syix.com>, <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: another way 4.5s is broken (user smmsp -> make installworld)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0203301354560.26731-100000@backup.af.speednet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20020330024842.GA45394@dub.net>

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On 29 Mar 2002, Bill Swingle wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 06:07:49PM -0800, pan wrote:
> > What the problem was is that UPDATING and other notes mention
> > not that smmsp and mailmull are needed just to cvsup to stable
> > (haven't noticed anything here in stable about smmsp or mailnull
> > either)
>
> I agree, this should have been added to UPDATING. I'm sure this is just
> a symptom of warner being bogged down at the moment. Don't get too
> steamed :)
>
> -Bill
>
> BTW, this bit me too.
>

I have marks as well. Perhaps this will help:

--- UPDATING-orig       Sat Mar 30 14:00:01 2002
+++ UPDATING    Sat Mar 30 14:32:19 2002
@@ -9,6 +9,16 @@
 the common items quick how-tos, followed by entries for versions of
 -current prior to 4.0 Release.

+20020330:
+       Due to the import of sendmail 8.12.2 two new usernames are
+       required in order for it to run as a set-group-ID binary.
+       Unfortunately, a 'make installworld' will attempt to set the
+       owner:group of /var/spool/clientmqueue to the new names and
+       will fail if nonexistent.
+
+       Username 'smmsp' and groupname 'smmsp' should be created before
+       doing an installworld.
+
 20020325:
        sendmail 8.12.2 has been imported.  The sendmail binary is no
        longer a set-user-ID root binary and the infrastructure to support


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 :{ andyf@speednet.com.au

        Andy Farkas
    System Administrator
   Speednet Communications
 http://www.speednet.com.au/





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