From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 5 3: 1:33 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 E6DD737B405 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 03:01:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from vixen.pragma.no (rudolph.pragma.no [212.20.194.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40AD943FBF for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 03:01:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from awand@pragma.no) Received: from vable.pragma.no (DNSSPOOFER [212.20.194.160]) by vixen.pragma.no (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id HB9VXC00.1E0 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 12:00:48 +0100 Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20030305120043.0241fab0@mail.pragma.no> X-Sender: awand@mail.pragma.no X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 12:00:47 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?Wider=F8e?= Andersen Subject: Re: A couple of questions related to the sendmail patch, etc. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 At 12:27 05.03.2003 +0200, you wrote: >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 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 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