Re: LogWatch on RedHat 9 and mail relaying
From: Kenneth A Kauffman (kkauffman@nospam.headfog.com)
Date: 04/11/03
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From: "Kenneth A Kauffman" <kkauffman@nospam.headfog.com> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 15:35:00 GMT
"rsina" <rsina-no.ssppaamm@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> On RedHat 9, root gets daily email from Logwatch reporting on various
> security issues. That's very useful for me, since I am my own system admin
> but don't know much about security (don't have important files on the
> machine anyway). There is a section on the Logwatch that reports on
> sendmail issues. I have an entry that states a relaying was denied. Does
> the logwatch also report when relaying is allowed? For me that is more
> important to know.
>
> I have the updated (security bug fixed) version of sendmail installed and
> obviously have smtp enabled. What is the best way to make sure no relaying
> is ever accepted?
>
> Thanks.
In theory, you would never want to know all of the successful messages in
logwatch. Imagine if you were running a corporate sendmail server. Your
"successess" will be in /var/log/maillog. I would just search/grep through
those files.
ken k
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