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- From: david@wal6000b.udc.upenn.edu (R. David Murray)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Who is sending us mail?
- Message-ID: <102182@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 19:06:06 GMT
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- Reply-To: david@penndrls.upenn.edu
- Organization: University Data Center, University of Pennsylvania
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- We have two rs6000/320's running AIX 3.2. Recently we have started getting
- messages on the console from 'sendmail daemon' that look like someone is
- sending mail to invalid users on the machine. I thought I'd find out what
- system was sending the messages and clear up whatever misunderstanding they
- had, but I have been unable to figure out how to determine who is sending
- the mail. I've learned about syslog, and set up our syslog.conf files to
- log everything, but the sendmail message for a message to a non-existant
- user just gives the to address and 'status user unknown'. Cranking up the
- debug level in sendmail.cf doesn't seem to product anything more useful.
- How do I get sendmail to log all connections the way VM/TCPIP/SMTP does?
-
- Also, when I sent test messages to invalid users, while the sendmail
- message appeared where syslog.conf told it to, I did not get a message
- on the console. I hadn't told syslog.conf to do so, but even before I
- got the syslog stuff working, the messages were not appearing on the
- console. So were the events that triggered the original 'sendmail daemon:'
- messages on the console /not/ simple misdirected mail errors? An example
- of one of the messages is:
-
- sendmail daemon: murray... User unknown: A file or directory in the path name
- does not exist
-
- This is not the message logged by syslog when I send my test messages.
-