To:
dnsop@cafax.se, dnssec@cafax.se, ietf-provreg@cafax.se
Cc:
staff@cafax.se
From:
Lars-Johan Liman <liman@autonomica.se>
Date:
Mon, 15 Oct 2001 08:57:32 +0200 (MEST)
Sender:
owner-ietf-provreg@cafax.se
Subject:
Broken mailer at cafax.se.
Friends, On October 6 I upgraded sendmail to version 8.12.1 on nic.cafax.se, the box that handles the lists mentioned above. It's now clear that that version contains a serious bug that shows its ugly face on NetBSD and some other OSs, but only when you try to send mail by forking off a new sendmail, and you happen to be a non-root user. This is true for local users with old MUAs, and for Majordomo. This is not true for most part of the mail traffic (including my own) that goes through that machine. My friend Johnny (local user) spotted the problmem on the 10th, and the problem was worked around. The bug was identified and a final fix was installed on the 12th. The consequence of the bug is that messages to lists managed by Majordomo on my box, just "disappeared" without any more alarm than a silent whisper in the log file, in the style of: Oct 10 13:54:57 nic sendmail[6978]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(majordom): drop_privileges: setgid(14) failed: Operation not permitted This mainly hit the lists dnsop@cafax.se dnssec@cafax.se ietf-provreg@cafax.se If you sent a message to any of the above lists during the period October 6 - October 12, I'll have to ask you to resend it. It didn't even reach the mail archives at nic.cafax.se. My profuse apologies. :-( Best regards, /Liman #---------------------------------------------------------------------- # Lars-Johan Liman ! E-mail: liman@autonomica.se # Senior Systems Specialist ! HTTP : //www.autonomica.se/ # Autonomica AB, Stockholm ! Voice : +46 8 - 615 85 72 #----------------------------------------------------------------------