From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 3 22: 5:59 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68FCB37B401 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 22:05:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from net2.dinoex.sub.org (net2.dinoex.sub.org [212.184.201.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73CC243FBD for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 22:05:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org) Received: from net2.dinoex.sub.org (dinoex@net2.dinoex.de [212.184.201.182]) by net2.dinoex.sub.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2455Dmo010790; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 06:05:14 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: net2.dinoex.sub.org: Host dinoex@net2.dinoex.de [212.184.201.182] claimed to be net2.dinoex.sub.org Received: from gate.dinoex.sub.org (dinoex@localhost) by net2.dinoex.sub.org (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) with BSMTP id h2455Bwj010770; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 06:05:11 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, osilva@scuff.cc.utexas.edu (Oscar Ricardo Silva) Message-ID: From: dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org (Dirk Meyer) Organization: privat Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-03:04.sendmail Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 06:01:25 +0100 X-Mailer: Dinoex 1.79 References: <200303031711.h23HBbVf059406@freefall.freebsd.org> <5.1.0.14.2.20030303155440.01a87a80@scuff.cc.utexas.edu> X-Gateway: ZCONNECT gate.dinoex.sub.org [UNIX/Connect 0.94] X-Accept-Language: de,en X-PGP-Fingerprint: 44 16 EC 0A D3 3A 4F 28 8A 8A 47 93 F1 CF 2F 12 X-Noad: Please don't send me ad's by mail. I'm bored by this type of mail. X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 2001 by Dirk Meyer -- All rights reserved. X-Note: sending SPAM is a violation of both german and US law and will at least trigger a complaint at your provider's postmaster. X-PGP-Key-Avail: mailto:pgp-public-keys@keys.de.pgp.net Subject:GET 0x331CDA5D X-No-Archive: yes X-ZC-VIA: 20030304000000W+1@dinoex.sub.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Oscar Ricardo Silva wrote: > Anybody know how we should approach this for older versions of FreeBSD? Is > upgrading source and rebuilding the only way? I was wondering if there > were binary versions or patches for older versions so we don't have > upgrade, rebuild and reboot. you can use the ports version anytime: /usr/ports/mail/sendmail-old will install 8.11.6 /usr/ports/mail/sendmail will install 8.12.8 1) If you don't have mailer.conf, it will overwrite the base files. else everything is installed at /usr/local/ Then activate the ports binaries in /usr/local/ by: $ cd /usr/ports/mail/sendmail && make mailer.conf 2) sendmail can work with some older configurations files. but you should update the config: Add to /etc/make.conf: SENDMAIL_CF_DIR=/usr/local/share/sendmail/cf an rebuild your cf files. $ cd /etc/mail $ rm -f *.cf $ make 3) last step is to restart sendmail $ cd /etc/mail $ make stop $ make start if you update make, sendmail runs even on 2.2.8 besides that you don't have the nice Makefile in /etc/mail kind regards Dirk - Dirk Meyer, Im Grund 4, 34317 Habichtswald, Germany - [dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org],[dirk.meyer@guug.de],[dinoex@FreeBSD.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message