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Re: Emergency 9.1.25 patch release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Fitzgerald)
Mon Mar 3 16:51:18 2003
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To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
cc: release-team@mit.edu, tfitz@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: Message from Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
of "Mon, 03 Mar 2003 16:41:56 EST." <200303032141.QAA09352@error-messages.mit.edu>
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Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 16:47:53 -0500
From: Tom Fitzgerald <tfitz@MIT.EDU>
Hi. Is there a drop-in replacement sendmail executable for machines
that need to run their own daemons, but can't be upgraded immediately?
> We will be putting out an emergency 9.1 patch release this evening in
> order to fix a recently discovered remote hole in sendmail. There are
> no other changes in the patch release.
>
> If you are running a server or other machine which is disruptive to
> update, you should are most likely okay without taking the update as
> long as your machine is not running a sendmail daemon. (Most machines
> don't, but look for "mail" in /var/server/.services if you have one,
> check the value if SENDMAIL is true in /etc/athena/rc.conf, and check
> the process table for a running "sendmail -bd" process.)
>
> If you have a machine set AUTOUPDATE=false, you can update it manually
> after the release goes out by doing a console login as root and
> running "update_ws".
>
> Please send any questions or comments to release-team@mit.edu.
