ms won't return from ssh

[Julian Field]

The "-bd" tells sendmail you want it to provide the SMTP service on port
25. It doesn't actually have anything to do with it becoming a daemon. A
sendmail started with just "sendmail -q15m" will daemonise itself.

At 00:25 27/09/2002, you wrote:
>On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Randy Fishel wrote:
>
> >   Your answer is in what the "-bd" option does in sendmail (or mostly,
> > what will happen if it is missing).
>
>Hmm, I was just copying what /etc/rc.d/init.d/mailscanner does, but
>you are right, the -bd option isn't there:
>
>         echo -n '         outgoing sendmail: '
>         /usr/sbin/sendmail $([ -n "$QUEUETIME" ] && echo -q$QUEUETIME)
>
>Nonetheless, it still didn't help when I added -bd to the outgoing
>sendmail in my script.
>
>Something else caught my attention though, while waiting for it to
>exit to hopefully maybe see an error or something helpful, I got
>this:
>
>mymachine# ssh myothermachine /usr/local/sbin/restart.sendmail
> >>> Virus 'W32/Hybris-C' found in file ./g8QLfBPu015603/joke.exe
> >>> Virus 'W32/Hybris-C' found in file ./g8QLfBPu015604/midgets.scr
>Killed by signal 2.
>
>So, it looks like it might be some sort of console fishiness, like
>something isn't wanting to give it up and the noise that Sophos
>makes comes through. Someone mentioned, ah, here it is:
>
> >Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 10:13:33 +0800
> >From: Ruel C. Bristol <raxie at BULACAN.PH>
> >Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> >To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> >Subject: Re: what's this VC noise?
>
> >Edit sweep.pl and add "-nc" on the DisinfectionOptions of sophos. This
> >will invert the default setting of sophos to ask for confirmation before
> >disinfecting/deleting.
>
>But I just added -nc and no joy. This is probably something simple and
>stupid, like always.
>
>Eric

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