[3757] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Emergency 9.1.25 patch release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christine Moulen)
Mon Mar 3 17:11:36 2003
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Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 17:10:51 -0500
To: release-team@mit.edu
From: Christine Moulen <orbitee@MIT.EDU>
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Hi,
We have 3 departmental Athena servers that are still running Athena 8.4 and
are running sendmail. I'm pretty it is necessary on one, I'm checking on
the other 2.
Are there steps we should take to update these machines?
Thanks,
Christine
At 04:41 PM 3/3/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>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.
Christine Moulen
Library Systems Manager
MIT Libraries, 14-0330 (New room number!)
617-253-0757, fax 617-253-8894
orbitee@mit.edu
