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

David Gould <dg@illustra.com>

From: dg@illustra.com (David Gould)
To: scrappy@hub.org (The Hermit Hacker)
Cc: mgittens@gits.nl, hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-03-20T09:20:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> 
> 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

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