Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 11:06:06 -0600 From: "William S. Duncanson" <caesar@starkreality.com> To: James Housley <jim@thehousleys.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mail is broken Message-ID: <5.0.0.25.2.20001030110455.00a6b380@mail.starkreality.com> In-Reply-To: <39FDA7F9.38AB2106@thehousleys.net> References: <5.0.0.25.2.20001030104059.0454e698@maggie.netspend.net> <20001030195038.A23861@atom.ru>
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Got it, thanks. For some reason, my MUA didn't find it when I did a search for mail.local. I still maintain that it should probably be mentioned in src/UPDATING. At 11:55 10/30/2000 -0500, James Housley wrote: >"Alexandr A. Listopad" wrote: > > > > On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 10:48:08AM -0600, William S. Duncanson wrote: > > > As of sometime over the weekend, mail.local is no longer installed > > > setuid. This is a problem, because it can no longer flock() mailboxes to > > > deliver mail locally. Right now, I've chmod'ed mail.local, and mail is > > > flowing again. src/contrib/sendmail/RELEASE_NOTES indicates that, > indeed, > > > mail.local should not be setuid, but doesn't indicate what should be done > > > to fix the problem "fire mail.local: lockmailbox /var/mail/caesar failed; > > > error code 75". Neither is it mentioned in src/UPDATING. > > > > > > Obviously, the solution is not to turn on the setuid bit for mail.local, > > > but something else that I'm completely missing. Any ideas? > > > > read carefully this mailing list! > > > > you need to read RELNOTES.TXT > > >This was sent to THIS mailing list on Oct. 19th: > >The following changes have been MFC'ed from -CURRENT to -STABLE: > >1. mail.local(8) is no longer installed as a set-user-id binary. > > If you are using a /etc/mail/sendmail.cf from the default sendmail.cf > included with FreeBSD any time after 3.1.0, you are fine. If you are > using a hand-configured sendmail.cf and mail.local for delivery, >check > to make sure the F=S flag is set on the Mlocal line. Those with .mc > files who need to add the flag can do so by adding the following line >to > their your .mc file and regenerating the sendmail.cf file: > > MODIFY_MAILER_FLAGS(`LOCAL', `+S')dnl > > Note that FEATURE(`local_lmtp') already does this. > >2. The default /etc/mail/sendmail.cf disables the SMTP EXPN and VRFY > commands. > >3. Now using sendmail's version of vacation(1). > > This change should be transparent except for the new options/features > available. > >4. The sendmail cf building tools (contrib/sendmail/cf) are installed in > /usr/share/sendmail/cf. > > More work still to come on this. > >Jim >-- >jeh@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power to Serve >jim@TheHousleys.Net http://www.TheHousleys.net >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >The wise man built his network upon Un*x. > The foolish man built his network upon Windows. > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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