Re: [2.6.25-rc5-mm1] regression: cannot run Postfix sendmail command as non-root

Benjamin Thery
2008-03-20T13:48:47Z

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> wrote:
>
> Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Thursday, 20 of March 2008, Benjamin Thery wrote:
> >> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:49 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> >>> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> >>> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:16:08 -0700
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> > Although this is advertised as a 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 problem, I assume the
> >>> > regression is also in mainline? 2.6.25-rc6?
> >>>
> >>> It is in 2.6.25-rc6, correct.
> >>>
> >>> If Pavel or someone else doesn't produce a good fix soon
> >>> I'll revert the guilty change as this bug is worse than
> >>> the problem that changeset fixes.
> >> Andre Noll sent a patch to LKML, acked by Pavel:
> >>
> >> "Fix permissions of /proc/net"
> >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/655148
> >
> > Have you tested that patch?
>
> I did - works OK, that's why I Acked it.

Also tested here. It fixes the regression.

Benjamin