On 7/30/19 4:14 PM, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Hi Ron, > > On 21/07/2019 05.42, Ron Murray wrote: >> On upgrade to buster, sendmail upgrade failed with this message: >> >>> start-stop-daemon: matching only on non-root pidfile /var/run/sendmail/mta/sendmail.pid is insecure >> Some work with Google found Debian bug #922395, which, although not >> for sendmail, pointed the way to the solution. > I've just uploaded sendmail 8.15.2-13 to unstable, it would be great if > you could test this s.t. I have a datapoint whether this fix should be > applied to buster, too. > > Thanks > > Andreas Thanks for the update. The same problem occurred when I upgraded to 8.15.2-13 on my two testing (bullseye) boxes. Deleting the /var/run/sendmail/mta/sendmail.pid file and re-running aptitude fixed it. Sadly, I wasn't smart enough to get the details on the file before I deleted it. I'm not even certain why it was there: I would have thought that shutting down sendmail before the upgrade should have deleted it. Perhaps this was the problem all along. After getting sendmail started, the file looks like this: > -rw-r----- 1 root smmta 53 Aug 5 22:14 sendmail.pid Thanks, ,,,,,Ron -- Ron Murray <rjmx@rjmx.net> PGP Fingerprint: 4D99 70E3 2317 334B 141E 7B63 12F7 E865 B5E2 E761
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