updated sendmail, now MailScanner isn't catching viruses

John Goggan jgoggan at DCG.COM
Mon Mar 10 14:18:37 GMT 2003


"Spicer, Kevin" wrote:
>
> Have you checked sendmail (on its own) isn't running (bypassing MailScanner).  Some of the rpms have a habit of kicking off the sendmail process and/or configuring it to start at boot.

Indeed!  Especially since the latest version of sendmail runs completely
differently than any previous versions.  It now invokes two copies of itself
-- one that runs as non-root and one that is -- so that it no longer needs to
be SUID-root.

In any case, it runs one to collect on the SMTP port -- and one to do local
mail processing.

So, I'm not exactly sure what the "up2date" script would have done as far as
that goes...

 - John...



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