ADMIN: viruses solved (I think)

[Kurt Wall]

Quoth James McDonald:
> Douglas J Hunley wrote:
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> >OK. I've just recompiled Sendmail to use the totally cool config.mc from 
> >www.xs4all.nl/~johnpc . This should catch and reject SoBig.F at the MTA 
> >level. And like I said earlier, the virus bounces messages should be 
> >tagged as spam with the X-Spam-Status: Yes header
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> Doug,
> 
> In your new sxs on sendmail the echo statements have the backtick,quote 
> combination as you mentioned.
> 
> Is there any shell or programming significance to this i.e. does the 
> shell parse `' combinations in a special way... I know the var=backtick 
> command backtick says assign the out-put of this command to the 
> variable. So is the backtick,quote combo special also?

In this case, autoconf uses ` and ' as the delimiters on the left
and right-hand side of quoted text. That is, the backtick is there
for autoconf, not the shell.

Kurt
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