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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 12:08:44 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Norman C Rice <nrice@emu.sourcee.com>
Cc: Tushar Patel <tushar@ecpi.com>, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: How will I find the version number for sendmail
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On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 08:32:44PM -0500, Norman C Rice wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 09:24:35AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 01:45:53PM -0600, Tushar Patel wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> How do I find the version number of the senmail we are running.?
>>>
>>> Man sendmail indicates we have sendmail 8, but it does not give me
>>> anything like 8.5 or 8.6 etc?
>>>
>>> We need to install the latest version of sendmail 8.8 so, we can take
>>> some measures againt spamer.
>>
>> Hmmm.  ident should do it, but it doesn't.  Try:
>>
>>   $ strings /usr/sbin/sendmail | grep version.c
>>   @(#)version.c   8.8.8.1 (Berkeley) 10/24/97
>>
>> Maybe somebody else can come up with a more elegant method.
>>
>> Greg
>
> Well, I don't know if this is more elegant, but try
>
>     sendmail -d0.1 < /dev/null

Nice.

Greg