Well I found out that those two file have a gid that is not recognised anymore... So what should I do with them ? can I safely delete them, as I dont use sendmail anymore on this machine ?

the thing is that the users for this machine are now imported from a NIS that is a netbsd 4. So even if smmsp is in /etc/group, it is not in the nis as this machine is just a client...

I guess I can safely ignore this error, and it wont cause me any trouble as long as I stay away from send mail ? using postfix wont mess with those right ?

I must have missed something on NIS setup, because I thought the user and groups should fallback to file identification using nsswitch if the group wasnt found on NIS...

On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 12:56:26 +0200
Asmodehn Shade <asmodehn@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I recently updated my netbsd 3.1 after quite a long time to the current netbsd-3 branch.
> 
> Everything went fine, but I got stuck in the end : 
> 
> $ /usr/sbin/postinstall fix sendmail
> Source directory: /usr/src
> Target directory: /
> sendmail fix:
>         /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail binary has wrong owner/mode [NOT FIXED]
> chown: smmsp: invalid group name
>         Client queue /var/spool/clientmqueue has wrong owner/mode [NOT FIXED]
> postinstall fixes passed:
> postinstall fixes failed: sendmail
> 
> Anyone has an idea on why and how to fix this ?
> 
> Thakns a lot,
> 
> --
> Asmodehn