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In article <1992Jul23.074924.17091@fzi.de> bwild@fzi.de writes:
> Following the public documentation of "sendmail" one can get a detailed  
output  
> of all rule actions by starting the sendmail program with an appropriate  
debug  
> level argument like
> 	
> 	sendmail -bt -C/etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf -d21.99
> 
> But this gives no additional output on NeXT, i.e. only the rule input and  
> output patterns are shown, but nut the explicit translation process.
> Is this an incompatibility of NeXT sendmail or does they use a different  
debug  
> level encoding?

Most vendors disabled this function when they disabled the debug wormhole.   
Those sendmail's that didn't disable this function and were on the internet in  
november of 1988 were most likely attacked by the Morris worm, as it was one of  
three worm holes exploited.

unfortunately, this part of sendmail debug is benign.  It was the "magic word
switch into debug as Root from the SMTP handshake" part of debug that
was the offensive bug.

-geoff

"The only thing obsoleted by Windows 3.1 is poking myself in the
eye with a pointed stick." - Gene Lee
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