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diff --git a/contrib/sendmail/src/README b/contrib/sendmail/src/README index d24e47b..b8c31ec 100644 --- a/contrib/sendmail/src/README +++ b/contrib/sendmail/src/README @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ # the sendmail distribution. # # -# $Id: README,v 8.355 2002/05/22 19:46:26 gshapiro Exp $ +# $Id: README,v 8.355.2.3 2002/06/21 22:44:56 gshapiro Exp $ # This directory contains the source files for sendmail(TM). @@ -1266,9 +1266,15 @@ HP-UX 8.00 README file for the future... Linux - Something broke between versions 0.99.13 and 0.99.14 of Linux: - the flock() system call gives errors. If you are running .14, - you must not use flock. You can do this with -DHASFLOCK=0. + Something broke between versions 0.99.13 and 0.99.14 of Linux: the + flock() system call gives errors. If you are running .14, you must + not use flock. You can do this with -DHASFLOCK=0. We have also + been getting complaints since version 2.4.X was released. Unless + the bug is fixed before sendmail 8.13 is shipped, 8.13 will change + the default locking method to fcntl() for Linux kernel version 2.4 + and later. Be sure to update other sendmail related programs to + match locking techniques (some examples, besides makemap and + mail.local, include procmail, mailx, mutt, elm, etc). Around the inclusion of bind-4.9.3 & Linux libc-4.6.20, the initialization of the _res structure changed. If /etc/hosts.conf @@ -1515,6 +1521,28 @@ Darwin/Mac OS X (10.X.X) b. Set / to group unwritable (as superuser): chmod g-w / +Darwin/Mac OS X (10.1.5) + Apple's upgrade to sendmail 8.12 is incorrectly configured. You + will need to manually fix it up by doing the following: + + 1. chown smmsp:smmsp /var/spool/clientmqueue + 2. chmod 2770 /var/spool/clientmqueue + 3. chgrp smmsp /usr/sbin/sendmail + 4. chmod g+s /usr/sbin/sendmail + + From Daniel J. Luke <dluke@geeklair.net>: + + It appears that setting the sendmail.cf property in + /locations/sendmail in NetInfo on Mac OS X 10.1.5 with sendmail + 8.12.4 causes 'bad things' to happen. + + Specifically sendmail instances that should be getting their config + from /etc/mail/submit.cf don't (so mail/mutt/perl scripts which + open pipes to sendmail stop working as sendmail tries to write to + /var/spool/mqueue and cannot as sendmail is no longer suid root). + + Removing the entry from NetInfo fixes this problem. + GNU getopt I'm told that GNU getopt has a problem in that it gets confused by the double call. Use the version in conf.c instead. @@ -1740,4 +1768,4 @@ util.c Some general purpose routines used by sendmail. version.c The version number and information about this version of sendmail. -(Version $Revision: 8.355 $, last update $Date: 2002/05/22 19:46:26 $ ) +(Version $Revision: 8.355.2.3 $, last update $Date: 2002/06/21 22:44:56 $ ) |
