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Article #119Re: Can't get through company gateway
From: Ed Anselmo
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 20:25
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 20:25
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> Why (after learning the hard way) do so many people install SunOS in two
> steps?
> 1. Install SunOS
> 2. Rip out sendmail, libresolv.a, patch lib.c to use the DNS coherently,
> add the dozen-or-so patches CERT warned you about, chuck (or massively
> massage) the shipped sendmail.cfs, replace a lot of old *.h files,
> then build bind, real sendmail, maybe a decent rlogind, etc...
That install procedure is hardly unique to SunOS -- we do it for any
machine that we're paid to really care about.
-- Ed "This week I'm replacing libresolv.a, sendmail, sendmail.cf,
and MH under AIX 3.2 (and if we ran named under AIX I'd replace that
too)" Anselmo
--
Ed Anselmo anselmo-ed@cs.yale.edu {harvard,cmcl2}!yale!anselmo-ed
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Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!yale.edu!cs.yale.edu!not-for-mail From: anselmo-ed@cs.yale.edu (Ed Anselmo) Subject: Re: Can't get through company gateway In-Reply-To: jdavis@bordeaux.kpno.noao.edu's message of Mon, 10 Aug 1992 19: 21:21 GMT Message-ID: <166jbcINNkft@BIGBIRD.CF.CS.YALE.EDU> Lines: 17 Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Nntp-Posting-Host: bigbird.cf.cs.yale.edu Organization: Yale University, Dept. of Computer Science, New Haven, CT References: <1992Aug9.175746.23419@athena.mit.edu> <1992Aug10.171850.3697@ctr.columbia.edu> <Bss60z.954@ef2007.efhd.ford.com> <1992Aug10.192121.22111@noao.edu> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 20:25:16 GMT