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Date:      Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:13:54 -0500
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
To:        James Long <list@museum.rain.com>
Cc:        tuaregmex@gmail.com, lane@joeandlane.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how do I see security logs without turning on sendmail?
Message-ID:  <20061214151354.GB98067@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20061214080822.GA14597@ns.umpquanet.com>
References:  <20061214064340.B476016A505@hub.freebsd.org> <20061214080822.GA14597@ns.umpquanet.com>

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On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 12:08:23AM -0800, James Long wrote:

> > Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:33:32 -0600
> > From: Lane <lane@joeandlane.com>
> > Subject: Re: how do I see security logs without turning on sendmail?
> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > Message-ID: <200612131733.32763.lane@joeandlane.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain;  charset="iso-8859-1"
> > 
> > Tuareg,
> > 
> > clearly sendmail is running.  That is indicated by "sendmail[41626]" in 
> > your /var/log/sendmail log.
> > 
> > The question, of course, is how does it get started.
> 
> This is quite the WAG here, but can sendmail be started on-demand 
> from inetd.conf?

It probably could, but I don't think that is the way it is done normally.
Take a look in /etc/defaults/rc.conf  at the stuff for sendmail
and then note what overrides you have put in /etc/rc.conf
Also, check out /etc/rc.sendmail

////jerry

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