Am So, den 05.02.2006 schrieb Marcel um 19:53: > I'm running Brian's CentOS/BlueQuartz CD, version 3.5 from Nuonce.net. > Everything seemed to be running fine for several days until this > morning, when I received a zillion "returned mail" notices from the > mailer daemon. Within it, it said it was unable to complete sending to > the following users for various reasons and blah blah blah. That's fine, > but I never initiated the email. > > In my logs, entries like the following shows up ('portal' is the name of > the box obviously): > > Feb 5 12:11:45 portal sendmail[17135]: k15EXFZf015093: SMTP outgoing > connect on portal.xxxxxxx.com > Feb 5 12:12:51 portal sendmail[17135]: k15EXFZf015093: makeconnection > (mobilemail.caii-dc.com. [209.135.227.253]) failed: Connection timed out > with mobilemail.caii-dc.com. > Feb 5 12:12:51 portal sendmail[17135]: k15EXFZf015093: > to=<aldara@xxxxxxxxxxx>, > ctladdr=<username@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (502/100), > delay=03:39:35, xdelay=00:01:06, mailer=esmtp, pri=3188891, > relay=mobilemail.caii-dc.com. [209.135.227.253], dsn=4.0.0, > stat=Deferred: Connection timed out with mobilemail.caii-dc.com. > > Irregardless of the errors, I can't figure out why/where the outbound > email is being generated. There are many entries in the log like this, > and I assume alot of it, is going through. The user never initiated it. > It has to be the server itself? > > Plus, it's using the full name of the server which is > portal.domainname.com in the email address. It seems to only use ONE > user's name though. AND it's ONLY using 1 user's name from a list of > several. Your log snipplet only shows the second half of the show. I guess there is running some kind of insecure web form forum software, so connections are initiated locally. Check the content of your user UID 502. He runs malicious software. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.11-1.35_FC2smp Serendipity 20:07:19 up 63 days, 44 users, load average: 3.91, 4.00, 3.50 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil Url : http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060205/acfdc8c3/attachment.bin