On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:12:48 -0400 (EDT) "Christopher X. Candreva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Sys-Hostname-Long is majorly broken on Solaris. It assumes a gnu > hostname command and issues 'hostname --fqdn' to get the hostname, > resorting to an IP method if this returns an error. > > hostname on solaris however doesn't take options, and if you are root > set's the system hostname to whatever you pass it. Upshot: Run spamd > 3.0.0 as root on Solaris to suid to your users, and it changes your > hostname to --fqdn ! This does not sound good. I have been running SA3.0 for a while on Solaris 9 from MIMEDefang and have never had the hostname changed. In fact, my spamassassin package does not list Sys::Hostname::Long as a prerequiste. Alex
