Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 14:37:01 +0300 From: Yonatan Bokovza <Yonatan@xpert.com> To: 'Hans Zaunere' <zaunere@yahoo.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Spoof attack? Message-ID: <EB513E68D3F5D41191CA00025558810150D599@mailserv.xpert.com>
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> > Ok, that sounds reasonable. However, sendmail is not > running. Its a very stripped down system, with > nothing running except ssh. The only thing I could > think of is my periodic security mailings from cron, > which I get in my root box. You got that right. When "periodic" sends a mail locally it execs sendmail. > However, if I dont have > sendmail running, how am I getting these? Also, can > these be sent somewhere else (externally), even > without me running sendmail? The mails can be sent from your machine to a remote machine, yes. You can try mail myothermail@hotmail-or-something.com < /etc/motd to see that you don't have to run sendmail for outgoing mails. You should be able to reproduce the warning message with mail localuser </etc/motd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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