Hello, presumably a good quick fix is to set DAEMON=no
in the /etc/sysconfig/sendmail file, and do a service sendmail restart.
This stops the sendmail daemon from listening on port 25.
I don't know whether the above file is under LCFG control though ....?!
Lawrence Lowe.
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On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Dave Kant wrote:
> Redhat have released patches to a vulnerability in sendmail for
> versions < 8.12.8
>
> EDG nodes use sendmail-8.11.6-1.6.x so will be affected.
>
> http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-073.html
>
> Does anyone know what will happen when RH6.2 is no longer supported
> by RedHat? Presumably this would mean that security patches would not
> get fixed quickly?
>
> Dave.
>
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