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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: The Internet Virus--Another issue
Summary: ... with the WIZ option in the first place.
Message-ID: <813@hadron.UUCP>
Date: 22 Nov 88 16:44:44 GMT
References: <1460@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu. <236@bigbroth.UUCP. <5365@medusa.cs.purdue.edu. <654@optilink.UUCP> <7715@boring.cwi.nl>
Reply-To: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Organization: Hadron, Inc., Fairfax, VA
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In article <7715@boring.cwi.nl> jack@cwi.nl (Jack Jansen) writes:
>Yet another issue, of course, is why sun compiled the distribution sendmail
>with the WIZ option in the first place.

Because, unfortunately, there is no "WIZ" option.  There are about a
hundred different options all covered by the -DDEBUG defined variable,
in the C source.  98% of these are useful, and I have wished that DEC
compiled them into the versions of Ultrix I have used (they don't - no
bugs (see their manual entries!), so no need for -DEBUG).  The other
2% are potential problems, some of which can be eliminated by replacing
such pseudo-keywords as "debug", "shell", and "wiz" with "noop" or
something similar in your binaries.

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