From owner-freebsd-security Tue May 22 23:54:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from euphoria.digitalextreme.org (euphoria.digitalextreme.org [204.212.149.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BA10D37B424 for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 23:54:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from subscribed@de-net.org) Received: (qmail 16108 invoked by uid 504); 22 May 2001 23:49:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO extremist) (204.212.149.57) by euphoria.digitalextreme.org with SMTP; 22 May 2001 23:49:52 -0000 From: "Dan Graaff" To: "Robert Clark" , "Olivier Nicole" Cc: , , Subject: RE: Qmail + FreeBSD 4.3 -- resolved Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 23:53:31 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 In-Reply-To: <20010522193427.A20063@darkstar.gte.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thanks for the advice everyone, but it looks like the problem just recently came out on the vpopmail site! (today infact)... http://inter7.com/vpopmail/ They completely re-wrote vdelivermail.. but i think im going to wait for a stable release.. just deal with pages of vdelivermail exit 11's Thanks, -Dan Graaff / Digital The DE-Network -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Robert Clark Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 7:34 PM To: Olivier Nicole Cc: veldy@veldy.net; glassfish@frogbox.dyndns.org; freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Qmail + FreeBSD 4.3 Or it fails some number of years later, when you power it on. [RC] On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 07:58:31AM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: > Hi, > > As a good rule, hardware fails in the first hour after turning the > power on for the first time, or it will fails some months/years later. > > Like anything, hardware do wear off, let say your CPU fan lightly slow > down, it means CPU heat increase. Memory and card connectors are > submitted to vibrations, even if not perceptible to human, so the > contacts get oxyded (sp?). Examples could be multiple, it is not just > disk mortors that fails. > > Best regards, > > olivier > > > Well bad hardware is less likely than its trying to overwrite memory it > > doesn't own. If he is being attacked, and it is a buffer overflow exploit, > > than overwriting memory it doesn't own is more likely than it being > > repeatidly hardware, especially after his system has been working fine all > > this time. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message