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Re: log entry question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ramon Gandia)
Mon Nov 23 05:18:27 1998
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 01:14:32 -0900
From: Ramon Gandia <rfg@nook.net>
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"Thomas Ribbrock (Design/DEG)" wrote:
> Thanks for clearing that up! I'm still quite positive that it was in
> messages, not daemon, but I'll check tonight to be sure... I've defintiely
> never seen such a message before on my machine which is the main reason why
> I was surprised (and concerned).
> I wonder: Could such a connection be used to spam? (I'm really just starting
> out on all "network related" stuff...)
It normally is in /var/log/messages, but I moved it (along with
DNS statistics) to /var/log/daemon so I don't get my
/var/log/messages
filed all cluttered up. I did this in syslog.conf.
As for SPAM... yes, I would imagine that someone could use you
as a SPAM relay. I know zero about sendmail (I use qmail), so
I am clueless about how to configure sendmail to protect against
this, but it *is* a feature of Sendmail to be able to guard
against it. However, you have to set it up.
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