Sendmail upgrade and security fix.

List,

Sendmail has a DOS attack vulnerability documented here:

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19714/info

This means that you should upgrade if you run sendmail.

I run slackware and use my own slackware packages for everything so for
me upgrading sendmail was pretty simple:

# upgradepkg sendmail-8.13.8-i486-1.tgz
# cd /etc/mail/
# m4 sendmail.mc > sendmail.cf
# /etc/rc.d/rc.sendmail restart

This shows why m4 macro processing is a good thing. In one command my
sendmail config file was recreated using the macros from the current
distribution.

Later,
schu

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Received on Tue Sep 5 16:20:58 2006