Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.12.1 on NetBSD 1.5.2
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Yoseff Francus <francus@metsny.yossi.com>
List: current-users
Date: 11/16/2001 11:42:28
Took a look at pkgsrc and it is for sendmail 8.11.6 so no luck with that.


On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> 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 ...
> 
> --
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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>