Re: sendmail -bi

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Author: Chris Thompson
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To: Nick Waterman
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: sendmail -bi
Nick Waterman writes:
>
> For the moment I've replaced the line in the makefile with
>
>         /usr/lib/sendmail.pre-exim -bi .....

>
> Which is my wisely-kept copy of "ye olde sendemayle".


Don't forget to remove public execute access, or at least the suid bit,
from the copy: you really don't want your users obeying it!

But keeping a copy is highly desirable for another reason: you will need
to temporarily reinstate it to apply some Sun fixes painlessly. At least
Sun no longer bundle /usr/lib/sendmail changes into the jumbo kernel
fix (I kid you not, that used to happen), but I recently had to do this
to apply a Sun fix that updated /bin/vacation, inter alia, as well as
/usr/lib/sendmail.

Chris Thompson               Cambridge University Computing Service,
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