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Date:      Thu, 14 Dec 2006 08:14:59 -0600
From:      Lane <lane@joeandlane.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how do I see security logs without turning on sendmail?
Message-ID:  <200612140815.00323.lane@joeandlane.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061214080822.GA14597@ns.umpquanet.com>
References:  <20061214064340.B476016A505@hub.freebsd.org> <20061214080822.GA14597@ns.umpquanet.com>

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On Thursday 14 December 2006 02:08, James Long wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:33:32 -0600
> > From: Lane <lane@joeandlane.com>
> > Subject: Re: how do I see security logs without turning on sendmail?
> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > Message-ID: <200612131733.32763.lane@joeandlane.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain;  charset="iso-8859-1"
> >
> > Tuareg,
> >
> > clearly sendmail is running.  That is indicated by "sendmail[41626]" in
> > your /var/log/sendmail log.
> >
> > The question, of course, is how does it get started.
>
> This is quite the WAG here, but can sendmail be started on-demand
> from inetd.conf?
It may be a WAG, but it may explain all of what is going on.  "mail" would 
attempt to create a connection to localhost, inetd would start sendmail to 
accept the connection, sendmail would route the message and then die.

Tuareg, check out /etc/inetd.conf for an entry containing the word "sendmail"

And let us know what you find.

lane




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