Re: Have I been cracked?...Thanks all.

On Sat, 21 Aug 2004, Craig White wrote:

> Actually, most everything looks good from here. let's break down your
> concerns...
>
> The two items you quote from the maillog appear to be 'inbound' messages
> to your domain which your server is apparently configured to accept and
> the 'relay' aspect is to accept and forward to local users. The only way
> to know for certain is to check the 'other' line that links to these by
> message id which tells who those mails are being sent 'to'.
>
> Sendmail 8.11.6-15 is out of date - you may want to check out apt-get or
> yum and using fedora legacy to get updates...
> <http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/7.3/updates/i386/>
> for more specific info on using apt/yum and fedora legacy...
> <http://www.fedoralegacy.org/download/>
> Seems that you should be up to 8.11.6-27
>
> /etc/mail/access does not permit relaying by other hosts - no need to
> worry about this being misconfigured
>

> Your aliases file is normal - you can redirect root's mail to another
> account (recommended practice), by adding a line something like
> root:    another_local_account

Finally found the time to check this out using your information. It looks
like most of my problem was not knowing how to interpret the log files. It
looks like my system is clean.

Thanks to Jeremy and Craig.

--
Bob Holtzman
"If you think you're getting free lunch,
......check the price of the beer!"



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