Bug 10286

Summary: regression: cannot run Postfix sendmail command as non-root
Product: Networking Reporter: Rafael J. Wysocki (rjw)
Component: OtherAssignee: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (acme)
Status: CLOSED CODE_FIX    
Severity: normal CC: benjamin.thery, xemul
Priority: P1    
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 2.6.25-rc5 Subsystem:
Regression: Yes Bisected commit-id:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 9832    

Description Rafael J. Wysocki 2008-03-19 15:55:13 UTC 
Subject    : [2.6.25-rc5-mm1] regression: cannot run Postfix sendmail command as non-root
Submitter  : Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Date       : 2008-03-19 17:52
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=120596507521149&w=4
Handled-By : "Benjamin Thery" <ben.thery@gmail.com>

This entry is being used for tracking a regression from 2.6.24.  Please don't
close it until the problem is fixed in the mainline.
Comment 1 Rafael J. Wysocki 2008-03-19 15:56:19 UTC 
Caused by:

commit e9720acd728a46cb40daa52c99a979f7c4ff195c
Author: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Date:   Fri Mar 7 11:08:40 2008 -0800

    [NET]: Make /proc/net a symlink on /proc/self/net (v3)
Comment 2 Rafael J. Wysocki 2008-03-20 07:38:18 UTC 
Handled-By : Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Patch : http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/655148