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Date:      Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:27:55 +0200
From:      Gilles <gilles.ganault@free.fr>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [6.3] How are those daemons started?
Message-ID:  <e5i2v35olubmp3inroqqoc7fm1stsmkuh5@4ax.com>
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On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:06:20 -0500, Erik Osterholm
<freebsd-lists-erik@erikosterholm.org> 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          *:*




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