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Bugtraq archives for 4th quarter (Oct-Dec) 1995: Re: SunOS syslog() fix, finally...

Re: SunOS syslog() fix, finally...

Casper Dik (casperHolland.Sun.COM)
Fri, 10 Nov 1995 09:33:38 +0100 

>>         102903-01       Solaris 2.3 (requires 101318-75)
>>         102904-01       Solaris 2.4 (sparc) (requires 101945-34)
>>         102905-01       Solaris 2.4 (ix86) (requires 101946-29)
>
>there did not seem to be any mentions about the need of recompiling
>sendmail, etc in the README file, which was mentioned in the cERT
>advisory. since it basically just patched the libc.a, I suppose no
>other modification is needed?

Sendmail doesn't need to be recompiled as long as it is dynamically
linked.

If, however, you installed you own version of sendmail and linked it
statically against libc.so, you need to recompile & relink.

Casper