Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ames!amdcad!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!ukc!strath-cs!glasgow!Jim From: jac@doc.ic.ac.uk (Jim Crammond) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,mail.uk-sendmail-workers Subject: Re: sendmail worm fix (1) Message-ID: <25454.8811151004@sophocles.doc.ic.ac.uk> Date: 15 Nov 88 10:04:46 GMT Sender: daemon@cs.glasgow.ac.uk Lines: 19 Phone: 01-589 5111 ext 5065 In-Reply-To: System Administrator's message of Fri, 11 Nov 88 14:50:25 GMT X-mailer: mail gatewayed to news (mail-news 1.5a) From: System Administrator Date: Fri, 11 Nov 88 14:50:25 GMT Sender: uk-sendmail-workers-request@cs.hw.ac.uk If the strings finds the debug symbol, does that mean that the sendmail was compiled with the debug option? Yes. I have tried applying the patch on a copy of sendmail, however when I do ?w 65536 get : 25701 = 0 and not 65526. Any reason why? Try 65535 (!) (Sorry, a typo in my original message)