Debian bug report logs - #1657, boring messages

Subject: Bug#1657: Sendmail uses flock instead of fcntl and is setgid root
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From: Marek Michalkiewicz <marekm@i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl>
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Package: sendmail
Version: 8.6.12-8

It is necessary to #define HASFLOCK 0 in src/conf.h because the current
(as of 1.2.x) implementation of flock() is broken (fixed in some 1.3.x
version, don't remember which one).  Believe me, using flock() it will
work most of the time, but sometimes sendmail will send double messages
- not nice, especially on mailing lists...  And don't tell me to use
smail instead :-).

Another small problem I noticed is that sendmail is setgid root.  I know
it needs to be setuid root and it is.  I wouldn't be surprised if it were
setgid mail, but it is setgid root.  I suspect this is incorrect...

Marek

From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: Marek Michalkiewicz <marekm@i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl>
Subject: Bug#1657: Acknowledgement (was: Sendmail uses flock instead of fcntl and is setgid root)
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