Well I removed some [notfound=return] in /etc/nsswitch.conf which prevented to switch to files when nis check failed.

Now postinstall check runs fine ;)

I guess I shouldnt have from the start put all those default accounts in the NIS assuming there were the same on both systems.

First time I set up a NIS, was hard to find a tutorial on the net ^^

Anyway, Thanks everyone ;)

On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 19:52:45 +0200
Asmodehn Shade <asmodehn@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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