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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!DIALix!haywire.DIALix.COM!not-for-mail From: peter@haywire.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Security Questions (Sendmail 8.7.1, Syslogd) Date: 11 Nov 1995 07:12:47 +0800 Organization: DIALix Services, Perth, Australia. Lines: 38 Sender: peter@haywire.DIALix.COM Message-ID: <480m9f$r4r$1@haywire.DIALix.COM> References: <47t9dj$3bl@heathers.stdio.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: peter@haywire.dialix.com risner@stdio.com writes: >How do I integrate 8.7.1 into "make world" of FreeBSD? >Does FreeBSD 9-26 SNAP have the newest syslogd patches? >To improve syslogd() and prevent overflowing it's buffer? FreeBSD-current (and I think 2.1 as well) was fixed and is now believed to be immune to the syslog() overrun (and a little faster as a result). >I could not see or produce the problem but I am not sure I know what >I am doing. >Also, I am installing 8.7.1 myself, FreeBSD-current still has 8.6.12. I've not yet imported sendmail-8.7.1 into the FreeBSD source yet because there is a known problem with the masquerade support, and because some folks feel it's still a bit green in the security area because of the large amount of new code for new features and improvements. I think sendmail 8.7.2 should be available soon - Eric is working on the masquerading now (I'm a sendmail beta tester). I personally think it's time to bring it into the -current source, because we've (my employer) had excellent reliability with it and certainly appreciate the performance improvements, even though we're not a large email site - only about 100,000 to 200,000 email messages pass through our network and mail hosts (ISP traffic). (Note this is a sendmail-8.7.1 data point, not a FreeBSD one - the hosts doing the mail traffic are not yet running FreeBSD (SVR4/386 - yuk!)). Maybe in the breather after 2.1 has been released... :-) Cheers, -Peter >Risner