Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 12:10:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Holling <myke@ees.com> To: Jay Tribick <netadmin@fastnet.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Err.. cat exploit.. (!) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9809101209140.10371-100000@phluffy.lm.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980910115926.408V-100000@bofh.fast.net.uk>
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> Was just having a look in /var/log the other day and spotted > a file called sendmail.st, wondering what it was I cat'd it > and here's what it did: This file is used by sendmail to keep traffic statistics for each mailer. man mailstats. You should never cat arbitrary files, at least use 'less' or some other filter. - Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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