Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!kl-cs!jonathan
From: jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,mail.uk-sendmail-workers
Subject: Re: THE SENDMAIL BUG LIVES ON
Summary: Ooops - its worse than that...
Keywords: sendmail, bug
Message-ID: <403@kl-cs.UUCP>
Date: 15 Nov 88 17:44:40 GMT
References: <402@kl-cs.UUCP>
Organization: U. of Keele, Staffs. U.K.
Lines: 14

In article <402@kl-cs.UUCP>, I wrote
>                 A little experimentation with a Ultrix machine
> using telnet to a sun revealed that if I used the command
> "^@^@BUG" I could still get the debug option set.

Actually as the debug command has been replaced with a string starting
with a null, simply hitting return will set the debug option.  No
need for any clever way of getting nulls to sendmail.  Not much of a fix
really, anybody got something better?
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