From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 31 20:28:06 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9D9F1065674 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:28:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 759B78FC1D for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:28:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JgQbs-0006NU-CQ for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:28:04 +0000 Received: from mar92-9-82-237-75-54.fbx.proxad.net ([82.237.75.54]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:28:04 +0000 Received: from gilles.ganault by mar92-9-82-237-75-54.fbx.proxad.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:28:04 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Gilles Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:27:55 +0200 Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <200803312158.51096.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <20080331200620.GA75067@aleph.cepheid.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: mar92-9-82-237-75-54.fbx.proxad.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.1/32.783 Sender: news Subject: Re: [6.3] How are those daemons started? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:28:06 -0000 On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:06:20 -0500, Erik Osterholm wrote: >Also note /etc/defaults/rc.conf which is /why/ these services >are on by default. Entries in /etc/rc.conf override entries in >/etc/defaults/rc.conf, so you should never change >/etc/defaults/rc.conf. Thanks guys. After reading /etc/defaults/rc.conf, I understood that the reason there's sendmail listening on TCP25 is so that local daemons can send e-mail to the admin. Thanks for the tip, and sockstat: # sockstat | grep 2000 root asterisk 593 17 tcp4 *:2000 *:* # sockstat | grep 2727 root asterisk 593 10 udp4 *:2727 *:* # sockstat | grep 514 root syslogd 531 7 udp4 *:514 *:* # sockstat | grep 25 root sendmail 676 3 tcp4 127.0.0.1:25 *:*