From owner-freebsd-security Thu Sep 10 12:12:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA01725 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 12:12:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.tasam.com (cain.tasam.com [198.232.144.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA01699 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 12:12:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cain@cain.tasam.com) Received: from localhost (cain@localhost) by cain.tasam.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA06630 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 15:11:28 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cain@cain.tasam.com) Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 15:11:27 -0500 (EST) From: Cain To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Err.. cat exploit.. (!) In-Reply-To: <35F7C4A7.12C2A1C7@kew.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The man page is nice... but that doesn't address what the original message was. More on the original, when I use netterm to get into my box, and cat a binary, I end up having NETTERM echo to my screen a bunch of times. But this is most likely to be because your terminal prgram interprets some of the binary file to be certian commands. If you cat sendmail.st to your printer, some will most likely be bold, some will be underlined maybe.. all sorts of wierd stuff will happne. This probably isn't a problem with cat, but I can't say I'm shure.. On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Drew Derbyshire wrote: > Jay Tribick wrote: > > 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: > > Quote without comment ... > > MAILSTATS(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual MAILSTATS(8) > > NAME > mailstats - display mail protocol statistics > > SYNOPSIS > mailstats [-o] [-C sendmail.cf] [-f sendmail.st] > > DESCRIPTION > Mailstats displays mail statistics on a per mailer basis. Each line of > output contains the mailer number, the count and byte-count of incoming > messages, the count and byte-count of outgoing messages, and the name of > the mailer unless the -o flag is specified. Common mailers include smtp > and local (eg: mail.local, the program which handles local delivery of > mail). > > Statistics are read from the sendmail statistics file sendmail.st, the > location of which is defined in sendmail.cf, or specified with the -f > flag. Mailers are likewise defined in the sendmail.cf file. Statistics > are cumulative; zero the statistics file to reset the counters. > > FILES > /etc/sendmail.cf sendmail configuration file > /var/log/sendmail.st sendmail statistics file > > SEE ALSO > mail.local(8), sendmail(8) > > > BSD August 13, 1996 1 of the message > > > -- > Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com > Telephone: 617-279-9812 > > "For every bug fixed, there is a bigger bug not yet discovered." > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message