how do I see security logs without turning on sendmail?

Tuareg tuaregmex at gmail.com
Fri Dec 15 11:15:30 PST 2006


On 12/14/06, Lane <lane at joeandlane.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > This is quite the WAG here, but can sendmail be started on-demand
> > from inetd.conf?
> It may be a WAG, but it may explain all of what is going on.  "mail" would
> attempt to create a connection to localhost, inetd would start sendmail to
> accept the connection, sendmail would route the message and then die.
>
> Tuareg, check out /etc/inetd.conf for an entry containing the word
> "sendmail"


Nothing, inetd.conf doesn't have any lines with the word "sendmail" :(

And let us know what you find.
>
> lane
>


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