I will _not_ go ahead and ask for an upload to stable without this
patch being tested. And since the original reporter backed out before
doing that...
Anyway, I'll attach the patch provided by Nicholas - tweaked a little
to work with quilt - to this message. Anyone who wants to test it, is
Nicholas Marriott nicholas.marri...@gmail.com:
Yes, it is probably because it is setuid. fdm calls kill(pid, 0) to see if the
process has actually started. This isn't actually needed, it is a debugging
aid. In any case, if it gets EPERM it is probably safe to assume the process
does exist.
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Ian Zimmerman i...@buug.org:
Package: fdm
Version: 1.5-3
Severity: normal
I
Yes, it is probably because it is setuid. fdm calls kill(pid, 0) to see if the
process has actually started. This isn't actually needed, it is a debugging
aid. In any case, if it gets EPERM it is probably safe to assume the process
does exist. Please try this diff:
Index: command.c
Package: fdm
Version: 1.5-3
Severity: normal
I tried to make fdm deliver directly to sendmail (exim actually) with a config
line like this:
action default pipe /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -odi i...@localhost
match all action default
but i get this in the log:
May 2 00:35:01 matica fdm[7686]:
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