[buug] cvsup problems

[f.johan.beisser]

On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Eric wrote:

>  What the heck do I do now?

first, you take a look at the file /usr/src/UPDATING.

since this seems like FreeBSD, you should probably go through the FreeBSD
mailing lists at http://doc.freebsd.org/, or use the search engine at
http://www.freebsd.org/search/. FreeBSD maintains a few good volume, but
very helpful and informative mailing lists specifically to answer and help
users. i highly recommend checking out freebsd-questions, and subscribing
to it. do yourself a favour, and have some kind of mail filter first,
since it does get around 300+ messages a day.

as for the rest of your problems, i'd also suggest going through the
handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/).

"smmsp" is a new user, introduced with sendmail 8.12.x, along with
"mailnull". if you're not using sendmail, you can set "NO_SENDMAIL=true"
in /etc/make.conf. this will prevent sendmail from being built and
installed on the next buildworld/installworld combination. for more
details on make.conf, read the man page on it, and go through
/etc/defaults/make.conf.

if you just want to add the two new users to your passwd file, here's how
they're set on my machines:

  smmsp:*:25:25:Sendmail Submission User:/var/spool/clientmqueue:/sbin/nologin
  mailnull:*:26:26:Sendmail Default User:/var/spool/mqueue:/sbin/nologin

any bad wrapping is my fault.

hope this gives you a starting point.


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