Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 23:19:12 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: keith@mail.telestream.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ps ax/sendail Message-ID: <20000607231912.A5191@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10006072056060.17487-100000@mail.telestream.com>; from "keith@mail.telestream.com" on Wed Jun 7 20:58:16 GMT 2000 References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10006072056060.17487-100000@mail.telestream.com>
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In the last episode (Jun 07), keith@mail.telestream.com said: > >From time to time I see entries like the following in a ps ax on > our mail server. It's curious because of the IDENT. I don't think I > see this in normal mail transactions and am wondering if this is > something to be worried about. > > sendmail: server IDENT:root@ithotel.dk [194.255.38.180] cmd read That just means that "ithotel.dk" initiated an SMTP connection to your machine, and sendmail used the auth protocol to determine the username of the sender. Otherwise, you would just see "server ithotel.dk". Nothing to be worried about. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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