in your /etc/aliases file can you post what it says net to the entry
root: ??????????????
On Feb 10, 2006, at 8:40 AM, j_70@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Could you expand a bit on what you mean by
"you need to define your root aliases" . Many thanks.
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Steve Rieger <riegersteve@xxxxxxxxx>
they get seved from localhost.
you need to define your root aliases, and sun sendmail -b -m 15 (i
think thats the command)
Chaim RIeger
On Feb 8, 2006, at 5:29 PM, j_70@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I guess the curiosity here is that:
[root@rhel1 root]$ ps -aeef | grep mail
root 19005 18945 0 20:23 pts/0 00:00:00 grep mail
[root@rhel1 root]$
[root@rhel1 root]$ ps -aeef | grep master
root 19081 18945 0 20:24 pts/0 00:00:00 grep master
[root@rhel1 root]$
Yet root has 123 messages. Where are they being served-up from????
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Steve Rieger <riegersteve@xxxxxxxxx>
ps -aeef | grep mail or ps -aeef | grep master
Chaim Rieger
at the command prompt as root type mail, if you have any it will
show
up there,
did you add the proper aliases.
On Feb 8, 2006, at 10:01 AM, j_70@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Thanks for the replies to this. My curiosity is that I have two
RHEL4 machines, one where root is sending mail, one where it is
not. As far as I can tell (ps -ef | grep sendmail & ps -ef | grep
postfix) neither of these daemons are running on either machine.
So, what is sending the mail?
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Wayne Pinette" <Wpinette@xxxxxx>
Also, I believe that sendmail's default configuration in RHEL 4
is to
only listen to localhost anyway. This means
that even if it is running (with just default) outside users
still
won't connect to the smtp port, just localhost users.
In addition, you can also fire up iptables to block port 25 as
well,
just to make sure.
If you want email to flow from your machine, though, sendmail (or
postfix) does need to be running.
Wayner
Job Cacka <job@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 02/08/06 8:33 am >>>
Because sendmail is disabled, and no other mailer is enabled,
this is why
you are not getting the root mail. What we do to protect
sendmail is
we
block port 25 access to all servers except for the email servers.
This
means
that the port is not available on that machine except locally,
in our
own
WAN. We use an external hardware device to accomplish this,
which is
the
only way to create a true firewall. Obviously keeping sendmail
off is
the
best security, but then so is using scissors on your CAT 5
connections.
I would guess that if you are keeping sendmail up2date with the
RHN then
you have nothing to worry about. Unless you are NSA, FBI, CIA,
some
company
with secrets worth knowing, or good bandwidth that hackers/
spammers
might
want to exploit.
There are other mail servers in RHES 4. Dovecot comes to mind
and I think
that Courier is also available.
Job Cacka
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Subject: no mail from / for root
I have an RHES4 mahine which does not send any mail to or from
root.
For
example, the result of a cron job is not sent. I thought this
service
was
enabled by default. If not, which services is it. I have read
that
sendmail
has some security issues and since this machine will not be
mailing
the
outside world, I did not want to start or configure it. Not sure
where
to
start looking. TIA.
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