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Subject: Re: Nessus Causing Problems?
From: Nick Edens (nedensCHECKERDIST.COM)
Date: Thu Oct 26 2000 - 08:10:00 CDT

I should probably clarify that I am not using sendmail to send messages. I am using a groupware product called TeamWare. It has its own built in smtp server. The reason I know Nessus is the problem is because the service only goes defunct while the nessus scan is running. It happens every time I run the nessus scan. I have had no problems over the past eight months except for this.

-Nick

David D.W. Downey (10/25/2000 16:54):
>What makes you so sure that Nessus is the culprit? Just the fact that that
>may have been the last program you ran doesn't mean it's to blame. I'm not
>saying you are wrong, I'm just wondering what your criteria is for
>determining that that was the problem.
>
>Have you reviewed your messages or syslog logfiles for possible errors? have
>you tried killall -HUP 'pidof sendmail' yet? Since sendmail is well known
>for having multiple problems in it's lifespan, it could be something else.
>Case in point, I have difficulty with sendmail recognizing one of my users
>from the outside as being authorized to geet his mail. Every other user we
>have set up in the same exact configuration can get their mail, but he
>can't. Only one in the company. I've reviewed his settings too.
>
>So you see, there could be just about any reason for sendmail hanging, not
>getting, sending mail. All depends.
>
>If you can give me some information on how you are determining that Nessus
>is to blame, I might be able to assist.
>
>
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Nick Edens <nedensCHECKERDIST.COM>
>To: <FOCUS-LINUXSECURITYFOCUS.COM>
>Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 7:59 AM
>Subject: [FOCUS-LINUX] Nessus Causing Problems?
>
>
>I ran Nessus on all of my servers yesterday and it gave me back a log.
>This morning I noticed that my smtp mail program on my mail server wasn't
>working as well as the fact that I was not recieving any inbound mail. I
>looked at the nessus report and it didn't say it found anything that would
>cause this. Am I going to experiance this problem everytime I run Nessus or
>is this just something I did wrong while running Nessus.
>
>-Nick