Ruleset debugging in Sendmail

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3 total messages Started by bwild Thu, 23 Jul 1992 07:49

#191

Author: bwild
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 07:49

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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?

--
Bernd Wild

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Bernd Wild                                       
Forschungszentrum Informatik FZI
Dept. Technical Expert Systems and Robotics

Re: Ruleset debugging in Sendmail

#196

Author: Geoff Brunkhorst
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 13:26

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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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Geoffrey Brunkhorst, RCF                    brunkhorst@Mayo.edu
Guggenheim 10                                    (507) 284-1805
Mayo Foundation, Rochester MN, 55905 USA     fax (507) 284-5231

Re: Ruleset debugging in Sendmail

#205

Author: Alan M. Marcum
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 22:06

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bwild@fzi.de writes
> ...one can get a detailed output  
> of all rule actions by starting the sendmail program ... like
> 	
> 	sendmail -bt -C/etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf -d21.99
> 
> But this gives no additional output on NeXT...
> Is this an incompatibility of NeXT sendmail or does they use
> a different debug level encoding?

Neither.  The sendmail we ship isn't compiled with the
debugging code enabled.
--
Alan M. Marcum
NeXT Tech Support
amm@NeXT.COM

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