[BusyBox] Busybox 1.0.0-pre10 and sendmail

David Meggy dmeggy at techsol.ca
Mon May 10 18:09:15 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 10:54, Michael Shearer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Why Sendmail, good question.  Well, it's the defacto SMTP daemon isn't it?  I don't really need all it's features but apart from being a hassle to configure, it's stable and secure.  I'd welcome any other recommendations.

I've found sendmail a bit of a pain, plus the fact it isn't really good
for embedded server either.  If you check Debian, they have 5(?) mail
servers.  I use exim for general use.  I just found it easier to use. 

> Why should BB set permissions to '/'?  Because right now, that's the only way I could get Sendmail to work.  Or else it complained that I had a World Writeable directory and didn't even want to start.  
> 
> I've since figured out the problem.  It turns out that this is only an issue when mounting the root filesystem over NFS.  The directory where my rootfs was located was World Writeable...  That's why the / inherited those permissions.  Now, it's debatable whether or not mount -t nfs should have changed those back to a+rwx,u-w. (Erik, any comments?)

Mount should never change permissions!!  If those aren't the permissions
you want, then you should change them on the NFS server.

David

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