Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 13:00:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: conf/29699: Setting NO_MAILWRAPPER results in a system without working MTA Message-ID: <200108142000.f7EK03T27988@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR conf/29699; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: conf/29699: Setting NO_MAILWRAPPER results in a system without working MTA
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 12:54:21 -0700
Andre Albsmeier wrote:
> >Synopsis: Setting NO_MAILWRAPPER results in a system without working
MTA
> >Confidential: no
> >Severity: critical
> >Priority: high
> >Responsible: freebsd-bugs
> >State: open
> >Description:
>
> When setting NO_MAILWRAPPER to /etc/make.conf sendmail still gets installed
> into /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail. In case mailwrapper has been used before
,
> an old /usr/sbin/mailwrapper is lying around and usually the link from
> /usr/sbin/sendmail is set. When you remove mailwrapper from /usr/sbin
> the link is stale and no /usr/sbin/sendmail is available anymore.
This was intentional. NO_MAILWRAPPER was added specifically to leave
/usr/sbin/sendmail *alone* so that people that clobbered it to install
their own MTA rather than using mailer.conf didn't get it overwritten.
The problem with the attached patches (and the followups) is that they leave
/usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail behind. If somebody really wants to change
this, then set a symlink from /usr/sbin/sendmail ->
/usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail so that we dont have (potentially dangerous)
old setuid binaries left behind that are no longer getting updated.
Cheers,
-Peter
--
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