On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 09:22:05AM -0500, francus@yossi.com wrote:
> I am attempting to upgrade to sendmail 8.12.1; platform is pmax running 
> NetBSD 1.5.2
> 
> The software compiles without a problem and the daemon accepts email from
> the outside just fine. When I attempt to send email I get an error messsage
> 
> drop_privileges: Unable to drop set-group-ID privileges
> 
> The sendmail web site states that if this message appears to compile with
> 
> -DSM_CONF_CANT_SETRGID
> 
> I did that and still see the same problem. 
> 
> Sendmail provides a test script and it would seem to indicate that setgid
> can reset the group id from a saved set.
> 
> Has anyone succeeded in installing sendmail 8.12.1? Would love to find out
> what it took.

Did you check pkgsrc ? The solution may be there ...

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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