how do I see security logs without turning on sendmail?

Tuareg tuaregmex at gmail.com
Fri Dec 15 10:23:18 PST 2006


On 12/13/06, Armin Arh <armin at pubbox.net> wrote:
>
> clearly sendmail is running, but not as a daemon.
> It gets called for every single mail by some other process running as
> root.
> You suspect squid to do so? (unlikely, why should a webcache send
> emails...)
> Well, then run squid as another user and watch the logs, should
> be "from=squiduser" then...


Hi Armin!

At this moment, I can't change the user for squid, but I'll keep this in
mind to make some tests in the future.

Thank you for your help.

The problem with too much root- processes is, you can't tell which one is
> going mad.
>
> enjoy,
>         Armin
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