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Date:      Tue, 19 Dec 2000 12:45:32 -0800
From:      Steve Reid <sreid@sea-to-sky.net>
To:        Mikhail Kruk <meshko@cs.brandeis.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-00:77.procfs
Message-ID:  <20001219124531.F46370@grok.bc.hsia.telus.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0012191343530.19915-100000@daedalus.cs.brandeis.edu>; from Mikhail Kruk on Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 01:45:01PM -0500
References:  <xzplmtcy5vg.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <Pine.LNX.4.30.0012191343530.19915-100000@daedalus.cs.brandeis.edu>

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On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 01:45:01PM -0500, Mikhail Kruk wrote:
> see you previous e-mail :) I was talking about things you loose when you
> umount procfs

I unmounted /procfs late last night woke up this morning with a mailbox
full of error messages from Amavis.

McAfee/NAI "uvscan" appears to use "/proc/%d/cmdline" (strings(1) is
your friend). My usr/local/bin/uvscan was symlinked to the actual
binary installed elsewhere and when I unmounted procfs it could no
longer find "./messages.dat". So I replaced the symlink with a shell
script that does a cd+exec and all is well.



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