From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 30 12:45:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Interjet.citystamp.com (host-64-65-195-99.choiceone.net [64.65.195.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89E4E37B403 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 12:45:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@citystamp.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by Interjet.citystamp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA24961; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 17:26:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from UNKNOWN(192.168.1.125), claiming to be "citystamp.com" via SMTP by Interjet.citystamp.com, id smtpdJ24959; Thu Aug 30 21:26:29 2001 Message-ID: <3B8DEDAB.E62DECF0@citystamp.com> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 15:39:23 +0800 From: "Matthew P. Marino" Reply-To: freebsd@citystamp.com Organization: City Stamp Works Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75C-CCK-MCD {C-UDP; EBM-APPLE} (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kory Hamzeh Cc: Trevin Chow , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Questions about upgrade Sendmail References: <006801c130bd$399801e0$14ce21c7@avatar.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 You could also try /usr/sbin/sendmail -bt and look at the output. Use CTL-D to exit. "strings /usr/sbin/sendmail | grep ver" may work also. Kory Hamzeh wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Trevin Chow > > > > I recently came across the security alert for Sendmail at > > http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2001/08/27/insecurities.html. > > > > 1) How do I tell which version of sendmail I'm running? I've done a > > quick scan of the dang man page, and tried "-v" and "--version" with no > > luck. > > This always works: "telnet localhost 25". Then type CTRL-} and type "close" > to exist the telnet session. > > > 2) Since sendmail is integrated in the freebsd install and located at > > /usr/sbin/sendmail, what's the procedure for upgrading it to 8.11.6 out of > > the ports tree? I just want to basically "replace" the currently installed > > version. > > I've always grabbed the version I've wanted from www.sendmail.org and > compiled it in a private directory. Then I copied sendmail to > /usr/sbin/senmail. Make sure you keep a backup copy of sendmail and its > config files. Also, "make install" may work, I don't remember off-hand. > > Kory > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message