From owner-freebsd-security Mon Dec 17 17:14:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B136D37B405 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 17:14:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-209.247.139.120.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.247.139.120] helo=blossom.cjclark.org) by avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16G8qN-0005eS-00; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 17:14:55 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fBI1Erf20837; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 17:14:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 17:14:53 -0800 From: "Crist J . Clark" To: Carlos Andrade Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: okay now I am worried Message-ID: <20011217171453.E19170@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <000301c1870c$a535ac40$fa01a8c0@rjstech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000301c1870c$a535ac40$fa01a8c0@rjstech.com>; from carlos@rjstech.com on Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 08:08:11AM -0700 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 08:08:11AM -0700, Carlos Andrade wrote: > Thanks for all the info... > No MTA on the machine in question, sendmail is turned off in rc.conf; so er > right I am um > have no clue what to do next. Inetd is also turned off, which then leads me > to the idea that I have some bad binary or ????. I guess re-installing 4.2 > (or going to 4.4 finally) fresh would more than likely "fix" this confusion > but possibly add a whole new level of pain and or suffering. Does any mail get _delivered_ on this machine? That is, does anyone's mailspool in /var/mail ever get appended to? If so, this is expected. It has nothing to do with running sendmail(8) or another MTA. It has nothing to do with inetd(8). It is not a bug. I am not sure what you are trying to "fix." If you really will feel better without seeing those in your logs, comment out the 'biff' line from /etc/services (see mail.local(8)). -- "It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's hilarious." Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message