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Re: daemons



>	But how does it stop the buffer overflow? Is there any way to find
>out whether the code being executed by say sendmail is the one it should?

No no, that wont stop the buffer overflow problem as such, but it will help
to stop the exploit (not allowing the program that is invoked from the
overflowed buffer).

The thing is, there is no sure shot way to stop these kind of problems, but
there can be ways to limit them at least.

Sharad.