[Nix-dev] maybe to silent WARNING when setuid program doesn't exist?

[Michael Raskin]

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Marc Weber wrote:
| Activating the configuration...
| WARNING: No executable named `ssmtp' was found
| WARNING: but `ssmtp' was specified as a setuid program.
| WARNING: No executable named `sendmail' was found
| WARNING: but `sendmail' was specified as a setuid program.
| [....]
|
| [root at mail:/home/marc]# ssmtp
| ssmtp: /nix/store/iqvl6cbgj1kzdvn8fd0i0ql2d9kxwzd2-setuid-wrapper.c:66:
| main: Assertion `len > 0' failed.
| Aborted
|
| [root at mail:/home/marc]# sendmail
| sendmail:
| /nix/store/iqvl6cbgj1kzdvn8fd0i0ql2d9kxwzd2-setuid-wrapper.c:66: main:
| Assertion `len > 0' failed.
| Aborted
|
|
| The resulting error is missleading. What about adding a comment within
| the c source file what has gone wrong or better:
| print a nice error message such as:
|         "Ouups ? Something has gone wrong. Propably I've been compiled
when app
|         xx hasn't been in path, add it to extraPackages and try again"

How are you getting it? I do not want to modify default setuidPrograms
and so I have to put up with cdrdao warning every time, but I do not
have /var/setuid-wrappers/cdrdao in the result. So how do you get ssmtp
setuid wrapper in that case?

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