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Re: Huge number of entries in /var/log/maillog
From: Peter H. Coffin (hellsop
ninehells.com)
Date: Sat Aug 02 2003 - 10:58:12 CDT
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On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 12:50:54AM -0400, Paul Greene wrote:
> When I installed obsd on both, I did not enable sendmail on either one,
> but both of them appear to have sendmail listening on port 25. The
> curious thing is that netstat -a shows smtp listening on both if run on
> localhost, but if nmap is run remotely on either box, port 25 appears to
> be closed.
that's because it's listening on the loopback interface only. Local
intrahost mail (like cronjob and security check outputs) need to be
devlivered, which requires a mailer. So "disabled" for mailers often
means "doesn't listen to network addresses, only local ones" rather than
"not running at all".
--
"... I've seen Sun monitors on fire off the side of the multimedia lab.
I've seen NTU lights glitter in the dark near the Mail Gate.
All these things will be lost in time, like the root partition last week.
Time to die...". -- Peter Gutmann in the scary.devil.monastery
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