Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 12:00:47 +0100 From: Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?Wider=F8e?= Andersen <awand@pragma.no> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A couple of questions related to the sendmail patch, etc. Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.0.20030305120043.0241fab0@mail.pragma.no>
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At 12:27 05.03.2003 +0200, you wrote: >On 2003-03-04 22:38, taxman <taxman@acd.net> wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 March 2003 01:08 pm, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > On 2003-03-04 10:02, Phillip Smith <lists@3bags.com> 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 I'm running the patch now, but it looks strange to me.. Is this patch suppose to take a long time (minutes) without any output on=20 the screen? /Andreas --- Andreas Wider=F8e Andersen <awand@pragma.no> Pragma AS http://www.pragma.no =20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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