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- From: brunkhorst@mayo.edu (Geoff Brunkhorst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Re: Ruleset debugging in Sendmail
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.132648.16605@bmw.mayo.edu>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 13:26:48 GMT
- References: <1992Jul23.074924.17091@fzi.de>
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- Organization: Mayo Foundation, Rochester MN. Campus
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- In article <1992Jul23.074924.17091@fzi.de> bwild@fzi.de writes:
- > Following the public documentation of "sendmail" one can get a detailed
- output
- > of all rule actions by starting the sendmail program with an appropriate
- debug
- > level argument like
- >
- > sendmail -bt -C/etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf -d21.99
- >
- > But this gives no additional output on NeXT, i.e. only the rule input and
- > output patterns are shown, but nut the explicit translation process.
- > Is this an incompatibility of NeXT sendmail or does they use a different
- debug
- > level encoding?
-
- Most vendors disabled this function when they disabled the debug wormhole.
- Those sendmail's that didn't disable this function and were on the internet in
- november of 1988 were most likely attacked by the Morris worm, as it was one of
- three worm holes exploited.
-
- unfortunately, this part of sendmail debug is benign. It was the "magic word
- switch into debug as Root from the SMTP handshake" part of debug that
- was the offensive bug.
-
- -geoff
-
- "The only thing obsoleted by Windows 3.1 is poking myself in the
- eye with a pointed stick." - Gene Lee
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