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Do some minor editing of the entires (the date of the smmsp user

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wasn't April 4, but Feb 17th).  Update the updating proceedure to use
the new mergemaster -p flag.  Add a footnote telling users how to cope
if their mergemaster doesn't have a -p flag.
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Warner Losh 2002-04-19 04:22:35 +00:00
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@ -31,15 +31,6 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT 5.0-CURRENT IS SLOW:
an alternative MTA. Setting mta_start_script to "" will
also prevent any MTA from being started at boot.
20020404:
Due to the import of sendmail 8.12.2 (see 20020217 entry), a new
user and group are required in order for sendmail to run as a
set-group-ID binary. A 'make installworld' will use the new user
and group to set the owner and group of /var/spool/clientmqueue
and will fail if the new user and group do not exist. The 'smmsp'
user and group must be merged from src/etc/group and
src/etc/master.passwd before using 'make installworld'.
20020315:
FreeBSD 5.0 DP-1 was basically branched today.
@ -54,6 +45,18 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT 5.0-CURRENT IS SLOW:
mergemaster (especially for updating /etc/rc, /etc/defaults/rc.conf,
and /etc/mail) and read /etc/mail/README for more details.
Due to the import of sendmail 8.12.2, a new user and group are
required in order for sendmail to run as a set-group-ID
binary. A 'make installworld' will use the new user and group
to set the owner and group of /var/spool/clientmqueue and will
fail if the new user and group do not exist. The 'smmsp' user
and group must be merged from src/etc/group and
src/etc/master.passwd before using 'make installworld'.
'mergemaster -p' will do this. You may need to install
mergemaster before this will work if you are updating from a
very old version of current. The updating recipe has changed
as of this date.
20020112:
The preferred configuration method for PAM is now /etc/pam.d/
rather than /etc/pam.conf. If you have an unmodified
@ -64,7 +67,6 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT 5.0-CURRENT IS SLOW:
Please see the following url for more details:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?db=mid&id=<xzp6667fyoa.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
20011229:
If anyone here is already using the new rc.conf(5) variable
networkfs_types, please note that it has changed
@ -931,6 +933,7 @@ COMMON ITEMS:
cp src/sys/${MACHINE_ARCH}/conf/GENERIC.hints /boot/device.hints [2]
make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
reboot in single user [3]
mergemaster -p [5]
make installworld
mergemaster [4]
[1]
@ -970,6 +973,13 @@ COMMON ITEMS:
as the archives of freebsd-current and freebsd-hackers mailing lists
for potential gotchas.
[5] Usually this step is a noop. However, from time to time
you may need to do this if you get unknown user in the following
step. It never hurts to do it all the time. You may need to
install a new mergemaster (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster && make
install) after the buildworld before this step if you last updated
from current before 20020224 or from -stable before 20020408.
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