RE: /usr/sbin/sendmail

["Adam Gilmore" <vuln () optusnet com au>]

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...