#850 xemacs movemail needs chrgp, setgid

[A K Bressen]

Hi--

/sw/lib/xemacs-21.4.9/powerpc-apple-darwin6.6/movemail
installed as group admin and without the setgid bit set,
and failed to be able to get local system mail when
called by gnus from inside of xemacs.

I chgrp'd it to mail and flipped the setgid bit, and now
it works. It is using dotfile locking by default on
the mailboxes; I hope that is what Apple Sendmail
uses... someone should probably verify this and then
change the package...

I'm using xemacs from Fink.
Packages xemacs 21.4.9-3,
with xemacs-base-pkg 1.71-1, xemacs-efs-pkg 1.29-1.
gnus 5.10.2.

Error message was
movemail: Permission denied for
/private/var/mail/EnRR2In--see
source file lib-src/movemail.c (1 return). Continue?

--best
--akb

[Max Horn]

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The information you provided is incomplete. Please make sure you state:
* the exact version of fink you are using ("fink --version")
* the exact version and revision of the package(s) in question ("fink info <PACKAGE>")
* the version of OS X you are running ("sw_vers")
* if possible, the exact steps needed to reproduce your problem
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[A K Bressen]

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Package manager version: 0.13.2
Distribution version: 0.5.3

package versions noted above.

os is 10.2.8

to reproduce the error, have some mail delivered and sitting
in spool.
then run xemacs and start gnus (M-x gnus).
I think it'll try to grab the mail by default, but if not,
try putting
(setq gnus-select-method '(nnbabyl "my-rmail"
(nnbabyl-mbox-file "~/RMAIL")))
into ~/.gnus.

error output noted above.

[Max Horn]

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Can you please update your system (we are at 0.16.0 / 0.6.1) and
try again?

fink selfupdate

should do it

[A K Bressen]

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My error report noted that a package installed a file with
a group and mode set such that part of the package wouldn't
work.

Upon downloading and unpacking the latest version of this
package, I don't see anything that indicates that movemail
will be installed with the correct group and mode; the file
in the archive is not
setgid, and I didn't see any mention of it in the install
scripts.

I should have checked this before bothering with the package
manager upgrade. Sure enough, movemail has
installed from package version xemacs-21.4.9-13 and is not
in group
mail and is not setgid, and thus does not work.

The upgrade was really hairy.
Using fink selfupdate and fink commander, my system was
put into a state in which dpkg was upgraded but its libraries
were not, so it wouldn't run.

I recovered by downloading the installer package
and copying over the libraries. I'm not sure if this is why all
the upgraded files are owned by uid 2011, group nogroup.

Additonally, dselect is a bit messed up; all help screens
display in some terminal mode wherein everything is
inverted, flashing, and mostly in an alternate character set.

I'd file a bug, but I don't think I could provide enough
details on
sequence of events. Do fink and fink commander log their
actions someplace?

I'll probably just rm -r /sw and start over...

[A K Bressen]

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My error report noted that a package installed a file with
a group and mode set such that part of the package wouldn't
work.

Upon downloading and unpacking the latest version of this
package, I don't see anything that indicates that movemail
will be installed with the correct group and mode; the file
in the archive is not
setgid, and I didn't see any mention of it in the install
scripts.

I should have checked this before bothering with the package
manager upgrade. Sure enough, movemail has
installed from package version xemacs-21.4.9-13 and is not
in group
mail and is not setgid, and thus does not work.

The upgrade was really hairy.
Using fink selfupdate and fink commander, my system was
put into a state in which dpkg was upgraded but its libraries
were not, so it wouldn't run.

I recovered by downloading the installer package
and copying over the libraries. I'm not sure if this is why all
the upgraded files are owned by uid 2011, group nogroup.

Additonally, dselect is a bit messed up; all help screens
display in some terminal mode wherein everything is
inverted, flashing, and mostly in an alternate character set.

I'd file a bug, but I don't think I could provide enough
details on
sequence of events. Do fink and fink commander log their
actions someplace?

I'll probably just rm -r /sw and start over...

[Darian Lanx]

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What is the status of this item?

[Daniel Macks]

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Regarding the dselect display mess:
http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php?phpLang=en#dselect-garbage

[Hanspeter Niederstrasser]

What is the status of this item?

[Hanspeter Niederstrasser]

chgrp/setid still not set on xemacs-1:21.4.20-1002. Still needed?

[Hanspeter Niederstrasser]

Debian seems to do this:

--- xemacs21-21.4.22.orig/debian/PackagesMakefile.in
+++ xemacs21-21.4.22/debian/PackagesMakefile.in
(LOTS OF OTHER CHANGES)
+   chown root.mail \
+       $(b)/$@/@PREFIX@/lib/xemacs-@VERSION@/@CONF_NAME@/movemail
+   chmod 2755 $(b)/$@/@PREFIX@/lib/xemacs-@VERSION@/@CONF_NAME@/movemail
(MORE CHANGES)

However, doing so opens xemacs up to a race security condition, but debian also provides a patch.

Someone who uses xemacs should test. I can make the changes but have no mail spool to test on.