Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 08:44:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net> To: FreeBSD-Stable <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: After cvsup, can't send mails Message-ID: <20021007084358.T659-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <3DA14427.5010009@Kernick.org>
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On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Phil Kernick wrote:
> Glendon Gross wrote:
> > This was a nuisance for me and meant that I couldn't use the NetBSD
> > sendmail but had to rebuild sendmail from sources I got from sendmail.org
> > in order to get it working. On FreeBSD my upgrade to 4.2.6 STABLE caused
> > my mailserver to fail. I ended up setting up a different machine
> > [running NetBSD] to be my mail server. Subsequent make worlds have
> > not fixed the problem.
>
> Put this into your /etc/make.conf:
> SENDMAIL_SET_USER_ID=YES
>
> Then rebuild the world and you get back exactly the old sendmail
> functionality. It works perfectly for me:
And completely circumvents the increased security of no longer
running sendmail as root. :-(
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Chris BeHanna http://www.pennasoft.com
Principal Consultant
PennaSoft Corporation
chris@pennasoft.com
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