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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


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