[SOLVED]emerge mail-mta/nullmailer-1.11-r1 failed

huuan · Last edited by huuan on Wed Jul 31, 2013 1:20 am; edited 1 time in total

installing gentoo using the amd64 handbook ay section 9.b installing vixie-cron 7 package of 9 is
mail-mta/nullmailer-1.11-r1
and it is failing like so:

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huuan · Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 10:23 pm Post subject:

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because one shotting portage will set the permissions to default. Now try:

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huuan · Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 10:58 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the why. I tried that and the result is the same when i emerge nullmailer
Same result for anything I try to emerge now.

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666threesixes666 · Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2013 1:27 am Post subject:

null mailer, exim, postfix, and sendmail are all sendmail alternatives / clones / duplicates.

if your not getting something else emerged and built because of it, (such as vixie-cron) you can substitute. (ie emerge a real mail server rather than the stripped down "out only" nullmailer)

huuan · Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2013 4:18 am Post subject:

thanks 666threesixes666
It is also giving the exact same error (although on different files) when I try to emerge mlocate but meanwhile I have managed to emerge lots of other stuff.
I'll try postfix which is where I was headed anyway. I want an out only mail for this server.
will report back.

huuan · Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2013 4:31 am Post subject:

well I guess since

666threesixes666 · Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2013 4:37 am Post subject:

fperms has something to do with protage and setting permissions.

my system merges nullmailer, however i am not hardened and i am multi lib. i would ensure coreutils are merged, as they contain chown & chmod. i would try to purge portage, and then emerge-webrsync to pull portage in. (as my system has been built up)

else time is money, exim > postfix > sendmail > ssmtp > nullmailer

im pretty sure gentoo uses ssmtp extensively, id test that alternate first.

huuan · Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2013 5:06 am Post subject:

thanks.
Already had cureutls emerged
I'm a bit out of my depth here. what's fperms and how do I purge portage?
edit: thanks 666
emerge -C portage and I found references to fperms elsewhere

OTOH I think this may be it:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7302332.html

I don't have sysctl so am trying to figure out how to switch off kernel.grsecurity.chroot_deny_chmod

huuan · Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2013 6:45 am Post subject:

I'd say that's the problem but I can't prove it right now since from chroot can't use sysctl

huuan · Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2013 10:00 pm Post subject:

booting into complied hardened has so far eluded me for many reasons (GRUB2 install issues, UDEV issues, OPENRC issues...).
I have been able to boot into non-hardened just fine. So for now I still cannot confirm the issue. After later today I need to move on to other things of r a while but I will return to this late July and sort it out then.

huuan · Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 1:20 am Post subject:

The grub issue was that I needed a bios_grub partition as well as boot. Closing.