I just read the new CERT advisory on the sendmail bug.. anybody have any details? I gathered it had something to do with imbedding newlines in either the info it reads from identd and/or imbedding newlines when giving it command line options.. but it's hard to say. James -- james abendschan jwa@nau.edu back to your quiet nightmares <a href="http://www.nbs.nau.edu/~jwa">Zero Funk Kick</a>