From: Holger.VanKoll@SWISSCOM.COM
Date: Tue Mar 11 2003 - 05:23:36 EST
you can check with
telnet you_ip_address 25
or
ps -ef|grep sendmail
sendmail does not need to be run as a daemon to deliver mail outside
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Muller [mailto:aix_sa_706@YAHOO.COM]
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 10:28 PM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: Re: More on sendmail
--- "Green, Simon" <Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM> wrote:
> How? You won't be able to receive anything from the
> outside world so the
> only possible source of risk would be if you have
> someone logged on to that
> system, with malicious intent.
So if I understand correctly, if sendmail is running
in daemonmode, there is no threat from this particular
security problem? How can I verify that it is in
daemonmode on my systems? We are not using mail
except for a few system generated messages to myself
or the DBA. I have been reading the sendmail FAQ and
my AIX books but am not finding anything that
addresses that topic so far. TIA.
=====
Tim Mueller
Hamilton Co. Dept. of Job & Family Services
Cincinnati, OH USA
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