From owner-freebsd-security Fri Sep 11 22:34:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA27662 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 22:34:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from drwho.xnet.com (drwho.xnet.com [205.243.140.183]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA27655 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 22:34:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drwho@drwho.xnet.com) Received: (from drwho@localhost) by drwho.xnet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA16433; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 12:44:31 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from drwho) Message-ID: <19980911124430.A15005@drwho.xnet.com> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 12:44:30 -0500 From: Michael Maxwell To: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cat exploit Mail-Followup-To: security@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91i In-Reply-To: ; from patl@phoenix.volant.org on Thu, Sep 10, 1998 at 10:57:59AM -0700 X-Useless-Header: http://www.xnet.com/~drwho/ Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Sep 10, 1998 at 10:57:59AM -0700, patl@phoenix.volant.org wrote: > No, I usually 'less', 'more', or even 'emacs' it. For two reasons. > 1) INSTALL is usually too large to fit in a single terminal window; > sometimes too large to fit in the default scrollbuffer. 2) It > might contain characters that would make my terminal window do > something I'd rather it didn't... And another solution that has thus far been forgotten: file(1). I use this routinely, on systems that have it, before I "cat" or "more" a file... -- drwho @ xnet.com -- http://www.xnet.com/~drwho/ "Freedom of government is good, but freedom FROM government is better." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message