TCP/IP 1.1.1, 1.1.2 bugs

0000-Admin0000 root at mustang.dell.com
Sat Oct 21 07:25:22 AEST 1989


I am using TCP/IP 1.1.2 from ISC now, and it still has quite a few bugs which
were around in 1.1.1.  For those that don't know about them, here they are:

1.  Owner and group information for /usr/lib/sendmail may be incorrect. 
    /usr/lib/sendmail must be owned by root and setuid to root.  Fix is:

    # chown root /usr/lib/sendmail
    # chmod 4755 /usr/lib/sendmail


2.  Sendmail when using the uux mailer has wrong sender and recipient rule 
    sets.  The fix is to edit /usr/lib/sendmail.cf changing line 302 from:

     Muux,	p=/usr/bin/uux,	F=sDFMuU,   S=13,   R=23,  M=100000, 
to:
     Muux,	p=/usr/bin/uux, F=sDFMuU,   S=14,   R=24,  M=100000,

    Kill and restart the sendmail process, or reboot to use the changed
    configuration file.  If the machine is using frozen config file option,
    (/usr/lib/sendmail.fc exists), then issue a "/usr/lib/sendmail -bz" 
    command before starting sendmail back up, or rebooting.


3.  Sendmail not adding RFC822 "Received" from lines.  This is optional, but
    the convention is to add it.  The fix is to edit /usr/lib/sendmail.cf
    changing line 152 from:

	H?R?Received:  $?sfrom $s
to:
	HReceived: $?sfrom $s

    Kill and restart process as in no 2 above.


4.  File /usr/ucb/mailq does not exist.  Link /usr/lib/sendmail to 
    /usr/ucb/mailq as follows:

	# ln /usr/lib/sendmail /usr/ucb/mailq


5.  File /usr/ucb/newaliases does not exist.  The fix is to link 
    /usr/lib/sendmail to /usr/ucb/newaliases as follows:

	# ln /usr/lib/sendmail /usr/ucb/newaliases



James R. Howard
Dell Computer Corporation  P#: (512) 343-3480
9505 Arboretum Blvd.	   !s: cs.utexas.edu!dell!mustang!jrh	
Austin, Texas 78759



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