On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, ga wrote: > Finally, this reminded me of an old DoS that I found long time ago but I > never > released it (sorry if it is already known). This was based on the same > USR1 > signal. When sendmail receives a SIGUSR1 signal, it dumps some infos in > the > /var/log/debug file. As sendmail is suid then it runs with root [snip] > I tried this on sendmail 8.8.0 (as I told you above, it has been a > longtime). I checked my copies of sendmail-8.8.6 and sendmail-8.9.1 that I had available and it looks to me like it uses syslog to do the state dump on a SIGUSR1. I don't have 8.8.0 to check with, but perhaps syslog was setup to write LOG_DEBUGs to /var/log/debug? - Chris
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