31625 – sendmail uses "FEATURE(smrsh)" but smrsh is not installed

Bug 31625 - sendmail uses "FEATURE(smrsh)" but smrsh is not installed

Summary: sendmail uses "FEATURE(smrsh)" but smrsh is not installed

Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Net-Mail Packages

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Reported:	2003-10-20 14:39 UTC by Carsten Otto
Modified:	2005-02-21 00:09 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Carsten Otto 2003-10-20 14:39:39 UTC

After emerging sendmail you can find "FEATURE(smrsh)" (not an exact copy of that
line, sorry) in sendmail.mc (and, I guess, the appropriate lines in
sendmail.cf). That means sendmail uses smrsh. The bug is: smrsh is not installed
when sendmail is emerged. The error I solved with removing the FEATURE and
rebuilding the cf was
"smrsh: uid xxx: attempt to use "something inside your .forward" (stat failed)"
Sorry, because I am not that precise. Give a comment, if you don't get the problem.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge sendmail
2. create a .forward
3. send/receive mail and have a look at /var/log/messages




Portage 2.0.49-r13-2 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.22)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.22 i686 AMD Duron(tm) Processor
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config
/usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="sandbox autoaddcvs ccache"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"  
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.Informatik.rwth-aachen.de/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 oss avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg gnome libg++ libwww mad
motif mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib
gdbm berkdb slang readline aalib bonobo svga java mysql X sdl tcpd pam ssl perl
python esd imlib oggvorbis gtk qt opengl mozilla cdr 3dnow acpi acpi4linux
apache2 dga dvd ethereal faad ffmpeg gd gtk2 hostap-noplx imagemagick imlib2
maildir mmx moznocompose moznoirc moznomail openssh php plotutils samba sse
vim-with-x -apm -arts -kde -mikmod -alsa -gpm tcltk"

Comment 1 Cory Visi (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-06-29 00:07:15 UTC

Hi, Carsten, of course, an exact error output would be much more helpful. However, at the very least, we would need to know which sendmail version you got this error with. It's been awhile since this bug was opened, unfortunately, so can you give us an update?

Thanks!

Comment 2 Andrea Barisani (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-02-21 00:09:28 UTC

Closing due to missing info.