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Date:      Thu, 04 Nov 1999 14:43:26 -0600
From:      Sandipan Panigrahi <corner@netsurfin.com>
To:        bsdsecurity <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   sendmail connections staying open.
Message-ID:  <3821EFEE.D6B4ED33@frontiernet.net>

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sendmail 8.9.3

A "ps xo command | grep sendmail" on my BSD box I get this output.

sendmail: accepting connections on port 25 (sendmail)
sendmail: server pppdslc242.mpls.uswest.net [216.160.21.242] cmd read
(sendmail)
sendmail: server pppdslc242.mpls.uswest.net [216.160.21.242] child wait
(sendmail)
sendmail: server wagner.kaist.ac.kr [143.248.146.22] child wait
(sendmail)
sendmail: OAA03852 wagner.kaist.ac.kr [143.248.146.22]: DATA (sendmail)
sendmail: server [209.247.75.220] child wait (sendmail)
sendmail: OAA03864 [209.247.75.220]: DATA (sendmail)

And in the maillog I see :
Nov  4 12:11:05 greenberg sendmail[3643]: LAA03643:
from=<ollie74@freemail.com.pk>, size=
0, class=0, pri=30000, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<199911041711.LAA03643@netsurfin.com>, proto=SMTP,
 relay=wagner.kaist.ac.kr [143.248.146.22]
Nov  4 13:11:23 greenberg sendmail[3692]: MAA03692: timeout waiting for
input from wagner
.kaist.ac.kr during message collect

And I sent e-mail from pppdslc242.mpls.uswest.net to  root@greenberg.com
with the mail server set 
to greenberg.com. though I receive the mail the cmd read and child wait
lines keep showing up and
stay there even after the email is delivered.

Is the system compromised ? Or is there some kind of timeout that I need
to set for sendmail
to cleanup its connections ?

Thanks for any information,
pani


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