Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 20:19:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: cvs-committers@freebsd.org Subject: sendmail related changes Message-ID: <14806.44340.887777.120946@horsey.gshapiro.net>
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There are some sendmail related changes I would like to make in the next few days. Some may be controversial so I am sending out this mail first. I would appreciate feedback on any of these items. If I don't hear any major objections, I'll go ahead with the changes. 1. Use sendmail's version of vacation sendmail's version of vacation is completely backwards compatible with the existing version. It also contains new features and bug fixes that are not in the current FreeBSD version. This will take care of PR bin/15227. 2. Copy cf config building tree into /usr/share/sendmail/cf I've been getting many requests to provide the cf tree in the installed system so users can configure sendmail without installing the FreeBSD sources. I can't see any reason not to do this. It will also cut down on support issues for sendmail.org. This will take care of PR bin/19790. It can also be used to close PR bin/13759 and bin/19897. 3. mail.local no longer installed setuid root Since 8.10, the open source distribution of sendmail no longer installs mail.local as a setuid binary. To accomplish this, users needed to configure sendmail to call mail.local as root. This is done by a one line configuration tweak. This tweak isn't necessary if the config already uses FEATURE(local_lmtp) as is recommended (freebsd.mc already does this). We (sendmail.org) decided that one less setuid binary on the filesystem was worth the possible support burden for upgrading users. As it turns out, nobody reported any problems. I think we should do the same for FreeBSD's installation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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