Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 20:21:31 +0200 (MET DST) From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> To: csdayton@midway.uchicago.edu Cc: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, jmb@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: .forward and sendmail? Message-ID: <199604231821.UAA16782@keltia.freenix.fr> In-Reply-To: <199604231450.JAA12880@midway.uchicago.edu> from Soren Dayton at "Apr 23, 96 09:50:30 am"
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It seems that Soren Dayton said: > has this been sent to Eric Allman so that it can get incorporated into > that sendmail? I would be much more comfortable running the latest from > him rather than whatever is in a particular release After reading the CVS log, it seems that nothing was done in sendmail "per se" as it is simply that it does not need the setgid anymore. The setgid was here to enable sendmail to get the load average (with reading /dev/kmem) and the current getloadavg(3) function is now using sysctl(2) which can be used without privilege for that purpose ------------------------------------------------------------ revision 1.8 date: 1996/01/29 13:19:49; author: mpp; state: Exp; lines: +1 -2 Don't install sendmail setgid kmem since it doesn't really require kmem access. It is currently configured to call getloadavg(3), which uses sysctl(2) to determine the load average, which is the only reason some sendmails require kmem access. ------------------------------------------------------------ -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #13: Sun Apr 21 18:14:54 MET DST 1996
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