Scott Mackenzie(smackenz@brad.ac.uk)@Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 08:07:50PM +0000: > SEE MESSAGE : > 'Can anyone verify a core dump on /sbin/mingetty' > for the original post > > The reason why there is no core dump from /sbin is because I didn't have > write access - should have noticed that but there you go. > > Ok, bit more information: > > This problem is positive in the following systems: > * note there could and probably are more but I've only had word of the > following systems being tested > > Red-Hat 6.0 onwards (not tested any before) upto and including 7.2 > Mandrake 8.0 2.4.3-20mdksmp (presumably similar to redhat here) > turbolinux 6.0 > SCO unix 5.0.5 > > (this information was quickly gathered by several people; thanks everyone) Slackware 7.0 (maybe 8.0) uses agetty, which is not vunerable, as far as I can tell. It just spits out a usage error. -- Bill Weiss
