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pkg/34513: mail/sendmail sets smrsh command dir to /usr/adm/sm.bin



>Number:         34513
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       mail/sendmail sets smrsh command dir to /usr/adm/sm.bin
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    pkg-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Sep 12 17:40:00 +0000 2006
>Originator:     Jim Bernard
>Release:        NetBSD 3.99.20
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD 3.99.20 i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
        The default location of the smrsh command directory (which contains
        binaries that sendmail is allowed to run via the "prog" mailer) in
        the source from sendmail is /usr/adm/bin, which is nonexistent
        on NetBSD (and many other) systems.  The smrsh.c source file will
        change the compiled-in command directory if the preprocessor symbols
        CMDDIR or SMRSH_CMDDIR are defined, and the pkg Makefile attempts to
        do this by setting:

          SMRSH_CMDDIR?=  ${PREFIX}/libexec/sm.bin

        However, this never gets to the cc command line, so the default is
        used, and the sendmail prog mailer fails to work.

>How-To-Repeat:
        Install the mail/sendmail package and

          strings /usr/pkg/libexec/sendmail/smrsh | grep sm.bin

        The result is

          /usr/adm/sm.bin

        Also, if you look at the build log, you'll see that smrsh.c was
        compiled without any mention of SMRSH_CMDDIR on the command line:

          cc -O -I. -I../../sendmail   -I../../include -DNEWDB -DNIS 
-DMAP_REGEX  -DNETISO -I/usr/pkg/include -DTCPWRAPPERS -DNOT_SENDMAIL  
-I/usr/include -c smrsh.c

>Fix:
        Unknown.  A quick and dirty workaround is to extract the source
        and patch smrsh.c.

        FWIW: This was reported in pkg/21012 back in April of 2003 and
        ostensibly fixed in September of 2003.  I'm not sure if it wasn't
        really fixed then or has regressed.  It might be worthwhile to
        put in a post-build check to verify that the compiled-in value
        matches the value of ${SMRSH_CMDDIR}.




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