Sendmail has been executed as root from time immemerable, hence the
reason it was so often the target of crack attempts.
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000 11:50:11 -0800 (PST) "Brian J. Murrell"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Everytime I install sendmail I have to suid it to root so that it can
> write into /var/spool/mqueue. Is this intentional?
>
> When I try to upgrade to libstdc++-2.96-0.12mdk.i586.rpm I get the
> following errors:
>
> # rpm -Uvh libstdc++-2.96-0.12mdk.i586.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
> libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 is needed by
> netscape-communicator-4.76-1mdk
> libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by kdesu-0.98-8mdk
> libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by menu-2.1.5-43mdk
> libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by abisuite-0.7.11-4mdk
> libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by pspell-0.11.2-3mdk
> libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by lftp-2.3.4-2mdk
> libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by groff-1.16.1-4mdk
> libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by gltt-2.4-3
> libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by
> groff-for-man-1.16.1-4mdk
> libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by xlockmore-4.17.1-2mdk
> libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by
> mozilla-5.0.0-0.M18.3mdk
> libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by hylafax-4.1-0.3mdk
> libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by libsigc++-1.0.1-4mdk
> libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by xpdf-0.91-6mdk
> libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by aspell-0.32.5-2mdk
> libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by
> hylafax-client-4.1-0.3mdk
> libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by galeon-0.7.7a-1mdk
> libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by evolution-0.6-1mdk
> libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by gtkhtml-0.7-1mdk
> libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by cups-1.1.4-3mdk
> libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by ghostscript-5.50-36mdk
> libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by gtkmm-1.2.3-3mdk
>
> which is obviously because:
>
> # rpm -qlp libstdc++-2.96-0.12mdk.i586.rpm | less
> /usr/lib/libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so
> /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2
> /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3
>
> Is there something wrong here? What needs to be done to correct
> this?
> A symlink in the new libstdc++ package for "older" apps? Maybe a
> libstdc++-compat package (~yuck~)?
>
> b.
>
>
>
> --
> Brian J. Murrell
>
-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version 3.12 (see http://www.geekcode.com/geek.html for details)
GCS d- s: a C++$ ULAHS++++$ P+++$ L+++>++++$ E++>++++ W+(-) N+ o K? w---
O- !M-- V- PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP t 5- X- R- tv-->! b++ DI++ D+ G+ e++>++++ h* r
y++++
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
