Recent versions of the (shareware) UNIX rzsz package from Omen Software, available from ftp://ftp.cs.pdx.edu/pub/zmodem/, contain the "feature" that if your version is unregistered, it will send mail to rzszat_private each time you upload and download using the software - rz.c and sz.c contain the following code: #ifndef REGISTERED /* Removing or disabling this code without registering is theft */ if ((Totfiles > 0) && (!Usevhdrs)) { sprintf(endmsg, "echo Unreg %s %s %ld %ld | mail rzszat_private", Progname, VERSION, Totfiles, Totbytes ); system(endmsg); canit(); sleep(4); fprintf(stderr, "\n\n\n**** UNREGISTERED COPY *****\r\n"); fprintf(stderr, "Please read the License Agreement in rz.doc\r\n"); fflush(stderr); } #endif This change was detected because the FreeBSD ports system uses an MD5 checksum to verify the integrity of downloaded software - the rzsz.zip file has a habit of changing regularly, and after one such change this addition was discovered. Thanks for Marcin Cieslak <saperat_private> for identifying this problem. The rzsz port has since been removed from the FreeBSD ports collection :-) Kris Kennaway ---- "How many roads must a man walk down, before you call him a man?" "Eight!" "That was a rhetorical question!" "Oh..then, seven!" -- Homer Simpson
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