Re: [HACKERS] Buffer overuns with the Electric fence debugging library

From: dg(at)illustra(dot)com (David Gould)
To: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org (The Hermit Hacker)
Cc: mgittens(at)gits(dot)nl, hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Buffer overuns with the Electric fence debugging library
Date: 1998-03-20 09:20:02
Message-ID: 9803200920.AA08836@hawk.illustra.com
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> On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, David Gould wrote:
>
> > I agree with Marcs comments here, but would like to add that ElectricFence is
> > freely available at least on Linux systems. It is a long way from Purify,
> > but it beats sitting around scratching your head.
>
> URL for the software? I'd like to see if they at least have a
> FreeBSD port that I can use :)

I just got it off the CD myself, but I ftp.redhat.com has it in the
redhat 5.0 distribution area. Look in the SRPMS for:

ElectricFence-2.0.5-5.src.rpm

Or, if you don't have rpm, AltaVista turned up some bsd entries too.

-dg

David Gould dg(at)illustra(dot)com 510.628.3783 or 510.305.9468
Informix Software (No, really) 300 Lakeside Drive Oakland, CA 94612
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