As with many other people, I have been working on the syslog(3) problem. I have come up with a library which can be used in your compilations of various programs, such as sendmail. For those who have SunOS dynamically linked programs, and BSD 4.4 systems, the problems should have been solved by the various patches and methods already posted here. However, a portable method which can be used *now* on most OS's is still very useful (I know this because I used it :-) The new syslog library contains 4.4 BSD lite code, hacked until it will compile on SunOS, Solaris, BSDI, and Irix, and hacked so that it will not conflict with normal STDIO routines (my emergency hack of just using 4.4 BSD STDIO turned out not to work well on SunOS because of non-STDIO routines calling private STDIO functions which did not exist under 4.4 STDIO) The libraries can be found at: ftp://ftp.cs.columbia.edu/pub/sos/lib/newlog-1.0.tar.gz ftp://ftp.soscorp.com/pub/sos/lib/newlog-1.0.tar.gz If you have any questions, or are suddenly very aware of your vulnerability and want to buy a firewall (:-), contact me via the methods listed below. ---- Seth Robertson voice: +1 800 SOS UNIX +1 212 686 5700 SOS Corporation fax: +1 212 686 5703 461 5th Avenue, 16th floor email: seth@soscorp.com New York, NY 10017 http://www.soscorp.com/