Regarding the Wu-FTPD problem with sendmail, the author of the
wu-ftpd admitted that he accidently had that 'feature' set up
in beta-16. He recently released an update , beta-17 that fixes
this (was announced to one of the redhat announced groups.
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Michael K. Neylon, UM ChE Grad |
GateKeepeR News wrote:
hmm, this is odd. It may be sendmail is using a UID that is used by ftp.
I also tought of it, but look at the part after "sendmail:". those are
definitely coming from the ftpd, showing myself logged in anonymously
with my e-mail add. as password, and doing nothing.
hmm, this is odd. It may be sendmail is using a UID that is used by ftp.
On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Nemeth Laszlo wrote:
|Grant Bayley wrote:
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| On thing was, when I checked in the process listing, ftp was showing up as
| "sendmail", as follows:
|
| ftp295 0.0 1.1 1360 756 ? S
Umm actually it looks more like sendmail is running as the user "ftp"..
sendmail sets a default UID to run as, so if it is the same UID as ftp,
well thats what would show up. Someone correct me if I'm wrong..
Bryan
On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, William T Wilson wrote:
|On Tue, 23 Jun 1998,
Just installed all the various bits and pieces for RH 5.1 on two machines
that were previously running 5.0.
Very smooth upgrade...
I rebooted, the boxes came up fine, and one of them, being a server
started being used immediately. People started downloading from it using
ftp, as they usually
On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Grant Bayley wrote:
On thing was, when I checked in the process listing, ftp was showing up as
"sendmail", as follows:
I can confirm this odd behavior. I can't imagine what would cause it.
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