From: John Deacon (jrd@star.ucl.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Mar 25 2003 - 11:00:47 EST
Wow! talk about a quick response...
I asked if a reboot was necessary after applying the recent sendmail patch
and got three answers within a couple of minutes. So thanks to Frank
Parkin (who had raised the subject with HP), Dan Price and Tom Blinn who
all said no reboot is necessary.
Tom's reply:
> You're not missing anything. All you need to do is "/sbin/init.d/sendmail
> stop" followed by "/sbin/init.d/sendmail start".
> Then verify that sendmail is still working correctly, e.g., by using
> some tool like "mailx" that invokes "mailq" directly to queue mail for
> delivery. On my V4.0G system, I found that some of the file and
> directory protections in the original system installation were wrong,
> and that broke posting mail using at least the "mailx" program. I fixed
> the protections manually and made sure the impacted programs were in the
> right group and had setgid privilege set so they could access the
> appropriate directories on behalf of a non-privileged user (do the
> "mailx" test as a non-privileged user, not as root, or you will be
> running with root's privileges and root can write anywhere in the file
> system).
thanks,
john
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