Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:22:09 -0500 From: Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net> To: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: how do I see security logs without turning on sendmail? Message-ID: <20061213201849.C225.GERARD@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <17489c7a0612131526v67d74964xb2136b4515dff29b@mail.gmail.com> References: <200612131657.18164.lane@joeandlane.com> <17489c7a0612131526v67d74964xb2136b4515dff29b@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wednesday December 13, 2006 at 06:26:58 (PM) Chad Gross wrote: > On 12/13/06, Lane <lane@joeandlane.com> wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 13 December 2006 16:36, Tuareg wrote: > > > On 12/13/06, Lane <lane@joeandlane.com> wrote: > > > > Tuareg, > > > > > > > > Post /etc/rc.conf from one of the servers that does what you want and > > > > that should lead us to what mta is handling email. > > > > > > cat /etc/rc.conf > > > > > > ### Network daemon (miscellaneous) & NFS options: ### > > > sendmail_enable="NONE" # Run the sendmail daemon (or NO). > > > cron_enable="YES" # Run the periodic job daemon. > > > portmap_enable="NO" # Run the portmapper service (or NO). > > > usbd_enable="NO" > > > sshd_enable="YES" > > > tcp_drop_synfin="YES" > > > tcp_restrict_rst="YES" > > > syslogd_enable="YES" # Run syslog daemon (or NO). > > > syslogd_flags="-s -s" # Flags to syslogd (if enabled). > > > > > > > Also, please post a copy of > > > > > > > > ls -al /usr/local/etc/rc.d > > > > > > > > from that same working server, just in case there is a custom script > > > > starting > > > > the mta. > > > > > > > > lane > > > > > > ls -al /usr/local/etc/rc.d > > > total 10 > > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 23 2003 . > > > drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512 Oct 30 18:06 .. > > > -rwxr--r-- 1 root wheel 624 Jan 14 2003 squid.sh > > > > > > And that's all. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Tuareg, > > > > Yours is a mystery. > > > > Let's see the output of > > > > tail -200 /var/log/maillog > > > > from the working machine. > > > > Clearly there is no mta being started on boot. But I'm not familiar > > enough > > with squid to say for sure that it is not the daemon in question. It may > > be > > that squid is configurable so that it could be delivering the log > > messages. > > > > I'll make it and see what I can see. > > > > In the mean time, if anyone else has some ready experience to say for > > certain > > that this is probably what's happening, then jump right in. > > > > lane > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > You need something to be able to send emails to mail servers. Either a MUA > which is capable of doing so (of which mail(8) is not) or an MTA locally. > > Are you sure you didn't follow these instructions on the other servers: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/outgoing-only.html You need to check out this URL: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail-changingmta.html Also, Sendmail is invoked from the /etc/defaults/rc.conf file. You over ride it in the /etc/rc.conf file. In FreeBSD 5.0, SENDMAIL_ENABLE="NONE" is not the proper way to disable Sendmail. Check out the above URL for further information. -- Gerard
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