[ale] [Fwd: buffer overflow in sendmail]

[jimpop at yahoo.com (Jim Popovitch)]

On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 17:39, John Mills wrote:

> Any words of wisdom on stepping from 8.11.6 to 8.12.10 in "one swell foop"
> (other than, "Don't go anywhere _near_ there!")?
> 

You should be fine unless you are doing weird things like shell
execution in an alias (mailing lists, etc).  If you do, you will need to
have /usr/adm/sm.bin/ setup for the related scripts to exist in
(alternatively you can modify this in sendmail.cf/sendmail.mc)

You will also need to have a user and group called 'smmsp' created for
sendmail to run under.

Other than that...  backup your existing configs and then

   ./Build && ./Build install


-Jim P.