From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 5 2:27:29 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41D3A37B401 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 02:27:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC0D543FA3 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 02:27:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-a025.otenet.gr [212.205.215.25]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h25AR9IH024305; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 12:27:20 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h25AR8js020507; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 12:27:08 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h25AR4FX020506; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 12:27:04 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 12:27:03 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: taxman Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A couple of questions related to the sendmail patch, etc. Message-ID: <20030305102703.GA20405@gothmog.gr> References: <002f01c2e25f$2087b3d0$aeb423cf@3bagsmedia> <20030304180817.GE4478@gothmog.gr> <200303042238.14556.taxman@acd.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200303042238.14556.taxman@acd.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2003-03-04 22:38, taxman wrote: > On Tuesday 04 March 2003 01:08 pm, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > On 2003-03-04 10:02, Phillip Smith wrote: > > : A couple of quick questions... > > : > > : I've downloaded the 8.11.6 patch from sendmail.org, and used the > > : instructions they provided > > : [patch -p0 < /PATH/TO/sendmail.8.11.6.security.cr.patch], which then > > : prompts me for 'which file to patch.' I'm not clear on which file I > > : _need_ to patch? Or where it would be. > > > > You should run the patch command with /usr/src/contrib/sendmail as > > your current working directory. > > I don't run sendmail at all, but I would like to learn how to apply > the patch. doing: > patch -p0 < /home/tim/sendmail.8.12.security.cr.patch > in the above directory still gives the "File to patch:" prompt > What else needs to be done to apply the patch? Hmmm, sorry for the confusion. I didn't read the patch carefully. The correct way of applying it for 8.11.x is: # cd /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/src # patch -p1 < /PATH/TO/sendmail.8.11.6.security.cr.patch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message