[663] in Release_7.7_team
Re: new release?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Jul 26 22:57:53 1996
To: Dorothy Bowe <dot@d-cubed.mit.edu>
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 Jul 1996 21:29:20 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 22:57:47 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> hey, it looks like piano took an update tonight, and now mail
> doesn't work. Didn't we have this problem before?
I don't know if we had this precise problem before.
The chronology of this problem was:
* Bill noticed that /kernel/fs/afs wasn't copied in in 8.0G.
* This was easily explained; I forgot to set NEWUNIX in
the version-specific update script.
* I kicked out a letter bump to fix this. Normally I make a
new version script, do a synctree in
/build/athena/config/update/vers so the build tree sees it,
and then "make install DESTDIR=/srvd" in
/build/athena/config/update.
* I did the above, except by accident I did the make install
in /build/athena/config. "No problem," I thought.
* sendmail got installed setuid builder by
/build/athena/config/files/Solaris. fix_owners didn't
fix it because it was setiud:
./fix_owners /srvd
./fix_owners: warning: preserving owner 1047 on /srvd/usr/lib/sendmail.nomx because it is setuid
./fix_owners: warning: preserving owner 1047 on /srvd/usr/lib/sendmail.mx because it is setuid
Why did we never have this problem before? I don't know. I used to
wisk athena/config to put out patch releases, and it didn't cause this
problem, as far as I know. The Imakefile in
/source/athena/config/files/Solaris has never had anything in it to
make sure that the sendmail binaries it installs are owned by root.
I'll add a "-o root" to the appropriate install line in Imakefile in
/source/athena/config/files/Solaris, and spend yet *another* letter to
fix this problem. This is such a nightmare.
