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List:       freebsd-stable
Subject:    Re: another way 4.5s is broken (user smmsp -> make installworld)
From:       Bill Swingle <unfurl () dub ! net>
Date:       2002-03-31 1:43:52
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On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 03:45:12PM -0800, Gregory Neil Shapiro wrote:
> >> This will only bite you if your system is prior
> >> to 4.5-RELEASE. That's when the new users were
> >> added.
> 
> unfurl> Nope, sorry. I was running 4.5-STABLE from late January when upgrading.
> 
> I don't see how that is possible.  If you were running 4.5-STABLE from
> January (or any other 4.5), you would have the change.  It was committed
> November 24th, 2001 and has the 4.5 release tag on it so it is definitely
> in 4.5:
> 
>   Revision 1.25.2.1, Sat Nov 24 17:22:24 2001 UTC (4 months ago) by gshapiro 
>   Branch: RELENG_4 
>   CVS Tags: RELENG_4_5_BP, RELENG_4_5_0_RELEASE, RELENG_4_5 
>   Changes since 1.25: +3 -1 lines
> 
>   MFC: Add two new accounts/groups (smmsp and mailnull) for sendmail.
> 
> The only way I could think of that this could happen is if you didn't run
> mergemaster back when you did your January upgrade.

I did run mergemaster but didn't put the new users in my passwd file. I
don't run sendmail and had no use for them. No one ever mentioned that
it would break the world if I didn't have the users.

Not a big deal really, it just shoud have made it into UPDATING.

-Bill

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