Re: Sendmail 8.7.5
> I'm probably too busy to maintain this myself. Especially since I
> don't understand mailbox locking. But if someone else is working on
> it, we might collaborate.
Timing! See my other message to debian-devel.
> I've compiled sendmail 8.7.5 and I've got it running suid-mail! [I
> don't see any reason to run it suid-root --- especially given the
> history of vulnerabilities.] Then again I've barely tested it.
Interesting. I'd like to test this some.
> One technical question (I'm a sendmail newbie :), I can link it with
> -ldb or '-ldb -lgdbm'. What features do I add by including gdbm? Or
> is it just an extra dependancy? (In my installation -ldb is all that
> seems necessary.) Perhaps this question is best asked in
> comp.mail.sendmail :)
I believe -lgdbm gives you the NDBM libraries, while -ldb gives you NEWDB. We
probably only need to compile sendmail with one kind of db library, but it
doesn't hurt to have the backwards compatibility.
--
Robert Leslie
rob@mars.org
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