RE: /usr/sbin/sendmail

As far as I've seen with sendmail, it's just a forking daemon. Once a client has connected, it'll fork off an extra process to handle that client. You should be able to seer the connection in your process list.

>From there it's as simple as attaching gdb (using the attach command) to
the child process and voila =)

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve@frij.com [mailto:steve@frij.com] Sent: Friday, 7 March 2003 10:29 PM
To: vuln-dev@securityfocus.com
Subject: /usr/sbin/sendmail

Hi folks,

I am trying to figure out how to cause sendmail daemon to drop a core file
during an access violation.

As far as I can see (or as far as I understand), I think the process is multi-threaded. Hence if one of the client connections causes a segmentation
fault, it simply dies away.

I am not sure how to attach a debugger to the process (is this even possible).

Thanks in advance... Received on Sat Mar 8 21:56:13 2003

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