Question about virus fix for SunOS 4.0
Francis Kam
mkkam at cs.uh.edu
Thu Nov 24 02:26:07 AEST 1988
>From: peirce at gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Leonard J. Peirce)
>
>I tried the little test line
> /bin/echo 'abcd' | /usr/ucb/strings -o
>to see if my strings(1) prints out in decimal or octal but it didn't
>produce any output....
Try "/bin/echo 'abcd' | /usr/ucb/strings - -o". Note the additional '-'.
This gives you a negative index. But if you try that on sendmail, it
would give you the correct index. I patched our sendmail with no problem
using strings.
[[ This is all moot, since Sun has recently posted an official fix (with
very thorough instructions) to this newsgroup. --wnl ]]
Francis Kam CSC-3475
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