Re: [cobalt-users] Strange message: sendmail startup with someone elses IP address

[Jeff Lasman <blists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 04 May 2004 07:55 pm, After Dark Grafx, Inc. wrote:

> I am new to the list so please forgive me if this is a stupid
> question:
>
> I  SSH'd into my box and ran   ps -ef   and  listed the processes.  I
> found an entry:
>
> sendmail startup 211.245.129.168

It simply means that someone at 211.245.129.168 was connecting to your 
box to send email.

If the "ps" program catches sendmail just as it's beginning to connect 
to get the incoming mail this is what you see.

Jeff
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