From owner-freebsd-security Tue Mar 30 8: 0:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from aniwa.sky (p32-max12.wlg.ihug.co.nz [216.100.145.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78BA714CC6 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 08:00:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrew@squiz.co.nz) Received: from aniwa.sky (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aniwa.sky (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id EAA04595; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 04:00:00 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <199903301600.EAA04595@aniwa.sky> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Garrett Wollman Cc: "Matthew D. Fuller" , "Harry M. Leitzell" , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Curious about 'hoststat' In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 30 Mar 1999 10:23:14 EST." <199903301523.KAA17222@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 04:00:00 +1200 From: Andrew McNaughton Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > < said: > > > 1) From strings-ing it, it looks like part of sendmail > > As others have pointed out, it is a hard link to sendmail. It doesn't It's a symlink on my system. At least one other post indicated the same. I presume this is dependant on the vintage of your sendmail setup. I've upgraded my system from an original install of 8.8.7 to sendmail 8.9.1. Is the symlink a more recent arrangement than the hard link, or is this something to do with the upgrade not changing it? (perhaps writing through the symlink) Andrew -- ----------- Andrew McNaughton andrew@squiz.co.nz http://www.newsroom.co.nz/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message