https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=297394
--- Comment #16 from Jeremy Chadwick <[email protected]> --- @Benjamin Let's be clear: THIS IS A FREEBSD PROBLEM, NOT A SPAMASSASSIN PROBLEM. The fact this works fine on Linux, previous FreeBSD versions, and non-sh shells demonstrates that fact. I was on the fence about opening a bug on this anyway because I knew, 9 out of 10 odds, it would devolve into time vampirism. I have every right to be irritated: FreeBSD src committers made this change, FreeBSD src committers therefore own it. I spent almost an hour after upgrading to figure out what the heck was going on and, rather than risk hand-hacking the hashbang lines and sa-compile lines pertaining to re2c path, I changed root shell back to csh and decided to report this due to the sheer surprise (hence why I chose "affects many people"). Do not make this a "Jeremy problem" or a "Perl problem" or a "SpamAssassin" problem. I am not going to truss or ktrace this and delve into various forks and syscalls; those responsible for this change can do that, as they own it. @cy I've never ever made any changes to /root/.profile, but FreeBSD 15.1 modified the file (I can tell from daily backups after upgrading from 15.0 to 15.1), ditto with /root/.shrc. Here you go: $ cat /root/.profile # PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:~/bin export PATH TERM=${TERM:-xterm} export TERM PAGER=less export PAGER # set ENV to a file invoked each time sh is started for interactive use. ENV=$HOME/.shrc; export ENV # Query terminal size; useful for serial lines. if [ -x /usr/bin/resizewin ] ; then /usr/bin/resizewin -z ; fi # Uncomment to display a random cookie on each login. # if [ -x /usr/bin/fortune ] ; then /usr/bin/fortune -s ; fi Seems /root dotfiles do not come from skel (/usr/share/skel) like in olden days, but from src/bin/sh directory. Looks like this was done starting 2019. Regardless, both set ENV. Compare my above contents to: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/releng/15.1/bin/sh/dot.profile vs. https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/releng/15.1/share/skel/dot.profile This is not a local problem. Or maybe you are becoming root in such a way that does not bring in a full/clean environment (e.g. "sudo su -" and instead just using "sudo", or alternately you can log in as root at console. I am 100% certain you can reproduce this on a stock system). Regardless, one cannot deny what's going on with ENV env var and it being set by FreeBSD dotfiles for root. No idea what is going on with sa-compile and PATH; as said, someone else can figure out that mess. @Helge A fresh SpamAssassin install needs to have sa-update run manually, ditto with sa-compile. This is a bigger problem with much wider impact lying in wait. It's Perl's taint mode today (partially), but something else tomorrow. The default shell change happened in January 2026, so for literally 8 months nobody noticed anything -- mindblowing. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
