gatesl@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (Lee Gates) (03/07/91)
While monitoring my processes one day, I noticed that ps reported that I was running a process called send-mail. I am familiar with sendmail and unix, so I sought after the man pages... even grepped all the man pages for the string send-mail. I would like to know what part of sendmail send-mail does. The reason I am interested is because I hadn't send any mail for over an hour, and didn't have any mail in the mailq at the time. Initially, I was suspecting some sort of security breach, with a setuid command, but I haven't found the same process happenning. thanx in advance lee
gatesl@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (Lee Gates) (03/07/91)
While monitoring my processes one day, I noticed that ps reported that I was running a process called send-mailso I sought after the man pages... even grepped all the man pages for the string send-mail. I would like to know what part of sendmail send-mail does. The reason I am interested is because I hadn't send any mail for over an hour, and didn't have any mail in the mailq at the time. Initially, I was suspecting some sort of security breach, with a setuid command, but I haven't found the same process happenning. thanx in advance lee #!
bianco@cs.odu.edu (David J. Bianco) (03/07/91)
In article <1991Mar06.213014.25601@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> gatesl@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (Lee Gates) writes:
While monitoring my processes one day, I noticed that ps reported that I was
running a process called send-mail. I am familiar with sendmail and unix,
so I sought after the man pages... even grepped all the man pages for the
string send-mail. I would like to know what part of sendmail send-mail does.
Well, if I remember right, sendmail actually changes it's
argv[0] to indicate what its status is. Perhaps send-mail
is the status for when it's running as a daemon?
David Biancokyle@uunet.UU.NET (Kyle Jones) (03/07/91)
gatesl@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (Lee Gates) writes: > While monitoring my processes one day, I noticed that ps reported that I was > running a process called send-mail. I am familiar with sendmail and unix, > so I sought after the man pages... even grepped all the man pages for the > string send-mail. I would like to know what part of sendmail > send-mail does. Berkeley Mail makes argv[0] "send-mail" when it execs sendmail. > The reason I am interested is because I hadn't send any mail for over an > hour, and didn't have any mail in the mailq at the time. Initially, I was > suspecting some sort of security breach, with a setuid command, but I > haven't found the same process happenning. sendmail was probably waiting for some mailer that it exec'd to exit. I don't know why it would be waiting so long on your system, but it's not inconceivable for a mailer to take hours to deliver a message.