Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!peregrine!elroy!ames!mailrus!umich!itivax!scs
From: scs@itivax.UUCP (Steve C. Simmons)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: THE SENDMAIL BUG LIVES ON
Keywords: sendmail, bug
Message-ID: <396@itivax.UUCP>
Date: 22 Nov 88 22:19:58 GMT
References: <402@kl-cs.UUCP> <403@kl-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: scs@itivax.UUCP (Steve C. Simmons)
Organization: Industrial Technology Institute
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In article <403@kl-cs.UUCP> jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight) writes:
|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?

Yes.  Get BPE from some comp.sources.misc archive (or any binary editor,
for that matter).  Edit the sendmail object. [[you saved an unmodified
copy in case you blew it, right? :-) ]]  Find the DEBUG command.  Change
it to be the same as the previous command in the search sequence.
-- 
Steve Simmons		...!umix!itivax!scs
Industrial Technology Institute, Ann Arbor, MI.
"You can't get here from here."