Installing latest Sendmail

Installing latest Sendmail

am 26.03.2006 11:35:39 von Klaus

Hello,

I read about latest Sendmail vulnerability and I want to update my
system (CentOS 3.5).

Is there any RPM for this ?

If not, then I would like to try installing from the latest .tar.gz

http://www.sendmail.org/8.13.6.html

First, I will remove current rpm :

# rpm -e sendmail-8.12.8-9.90
# rpm -e sendmail-cf-8.12.8-9.90

Then copy the .tar.gz

# cp sendmail.8.13.6.tar.gz /root/install

# cd /root/install
# tar -zxvf sendmail.8.13.6.tar.gz
# cd sendmail.8.13.6
# sh Build

Will this works ? Anyone can inform me more ?

Please, I am not an experience Linux sysadmin.

Thanks

Re: Installing latest Sendmail

am 26.03.2006 11:44:59 von Michael Heiming

In comp.mail.sendmail Klaus :
> Hello,

> I read about latest Sendmail vulnerability and I want to update my
> system (CentOS 3.5).

> Is there any RPM for this ?

Sure, and you can install it and all other updates for you distro
with just a single command, 'yum update' (as root).

[..]


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Re: Installing latest Sendmail

am 26.03.2006 12:22:53 von Michael Heiming

In comp.mail.sendmail Klaus :
> Michael Heiming schreef:

>> In comp.mail.sendmail Klaus :
>> > Hello,
>>
>> > I read about latest Sendmail vulnerability and I want to update my
>> > system (CentOS 3.5).
>>
>> > Is there any RPM for this ?
>>
>> Sure, and you can install it and all other updates for you distro
>> with just a single command, 'yum update' (as root).
[..]

> Hi Michael,

> I did that yum update, and here is the Sendmail version :

> sendmail-8.12.11-4.RHEL3.4

> I tought this is not the latest.

Looks fine and seems the latest update version, you can check
install date with 'rpm -qi sendmail' or/and see /var/log/yum.log'.

Distro versions mostly don't upgrade major versions, but back port
security and alike patches to the old version. Though you should
be fine now regarding the latest vulnerability problem and don't
need the most recent version, unless you need some feature
missing in your version.

Just be sure to restart sendmail, if the rpm didn't do that to
actually run the updated version.

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Re: Installing latest Sendmail

am 26.03.2006 13:12:18 von Klaus

Hi Michael,

I did that yum update, and here is the Sendmail version :

sendmail-8.12.11-4.RHEL3.4

I tought this is not the latest.

Michael Heiming schreef:

> In comp.mail.sendmail Klaus :
> > Hello,
>
> > I read about latest Sendmail vulnerability and I want to update my
> > system (CentOS 3.5).
>
> > Is there any RPM for this ?
>
> Sure, and you can install it and all other updates for you distro
> with just a single command, 'yum update' (as root).
>
> [..]
>
>
> BTW
> Please try below URL(s) before answering, most people aren't
> using a browser here to read/write, this is usenet.
>
> http://www.safalra.com/special/googlegroupsreply
> http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google
>
> --
> Michael Heiming (X-PGP-Sig > GPG-Key ID: EDD27B94)
> mail: echo zvpunry@urvzvat.qr | perl -pe 'y/a-z/n-za-m/'
> #bofh excuse 421: Domain controller not responding

Re: Installing latest Sendmail

am 26.03.2006 16:12:23 von Klaus

Here is the information.

Michael, thanks for your help. I will not update it using the latest
version.

# rpm -qi sendmail
Name : sendmail Relocations: (not
relocatable)
Version : 8.12.11 Vendor: CentOS
Release : 4.RHEL3.4 Build Date: Wed 22 Mar 2006
10:30:43 AM CST
Install Date: Wed 22 Mar 2006 11:28:17 PM CST Build Host:
sillage.bis.pasteur.fr
Group : System Environment/Daemons Source RPM:
sendmail-8.12.11-4.RHEL3.4.src.rpm
Size : 1150547 License: Sendmail
Signature : DSA/SHA1, Wed 22 Mar 2006 10:43:58 AM CST, Key ID
7049e44d025e513b
Summary : A widely used Mail Transport Agent (MTA).