[723] in linux-security and linux-alert archive
Re: [linux-security] Denial of service in inetd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Langseth)
Sat May 11 12:31:32 1996
From: dragon@cc.gatech.edu (Jacob Langseth)
To: cfarris@iss.net
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 18:37:41 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
In-Reply-To: <199605101939.PAA09886@phoenix.iss.net> from "Chris Farris" at May 10, 96 03:39:24 pm
Reply-to: dragon@cc.gatech.edu
| always keep it running. And how would sendmail know how to process the
| queue after a specified interval?
If you're invoking sendmail via inetd, you must also have a cronjob
invoke sendmail every 15m/1hr/whatever to process the queue.
But then again, if you're not going to try to save CPU cycles by not
running sendmail directly, you might as well run smap and smapd, which has
a hell of a lot less overhead then sendmail, and is much more secure.
_jwl
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