"Matt Stamm"
wrote: - Isn't postfix installed, not sendmail?
- It appears an outsider installed the Red Hat distribution of sendmail on my system. It launches every hour on the hour but fails, outputting "service smtp unknown" to the "warn" log file. Has anyone seen this and what are they trying to accomplish?
Not necessarily Postfix also provide a sendmail command (see man sendmail). It looks like some program is trying
your Postfix server is not up. You should check
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: jrn@oregonhanggliding.com (Jim Norton) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 15:16:06 -0700 (PDT) the send mail hourly but the size of the
sendmail binary against the one in the Postfix RPM to make sure.
Charles
Maybe you could see what is going into the outbound queues? Maybe the payload will tell something about whats going on?
Jim, What are the outbound queues. By the payload, are you talking about the actual email message being sent by sendmail? I don't beleive sendmail is successfully launching because of the following log messages that occur every hour... Apr 22 09:00:02 (none) sendmail[1042]: makeconnection: service "smtp" unknown this message is from the "warn" log
-Jim-
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