From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 18 0:26:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B26137B419; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 00:26:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.11.6/8.11.2) id g3I7QJ910970; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 10:26:19 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 10:26:19 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Gregory Neil Shapiro , dougb@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: smmsp user Message-ID: <20020418072619.GE98788@sunbay.com> References: <15549.60147.206239.810195@horsey.gshapiro.net> <15550.1234.653185.743707@horsey.gshapiro.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="z0eOaCaDLjvTGF2l" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15550.1234.653185.743707@horsey.gshapiro.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --z0eOaCaDLjvTGF2l Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 04:27:14PM -0700, Gregory Neil Shapiro wrote: > andyf> It would be A Good Thing(tm) if this were fixed (ie. installworld = not > andyf> barfing). Otherwise, I predict that this will rise to FAQ #1. >=20 > The directory is needed and the ownership is important. The handbook > already warns users updating from source to update the file. Now UPDATING > does as well. Nothing can really be fixed beyond possibly adding a featu= re > to mtree to obey #ifdef's for users who define NO_SENDMAIL. If you > want such a feature, a PR (with a patch to mtree) could be filed for the > maintainer of mtree. >=20 We can easily add a glue to the etc/Makefile's distrib-dirs target so that it pre-checks that these users exist, and if they don't, suggests manually updating the passwd database or using the mergemaster(8)'s -p option. The last one could be tricky if the installed mergemaster(8) does not have it. Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age --z0eOaCaDLjvTGF2l Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8vnUaUkv4P6juNwoRAkkwAJwMa4Dr+4gUhYisUceRQ7HF+jkn0QCeNAqN Y9KLXZPu2G2o+y+w5jXJAr8= =V+mC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --z0eOaCaDLjvTGF2l-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message