Originally posted by EnVoy:
I had top running this evening and I noticed the process "sendmail" periodically appearing/disapearing in the list. While this was happening I had no email apps running. Is sendmail supposed to do this? Thanks....
That depends.... did you ever experiment with sendmail or any scripts that might use it?
Take a look at some of the files in /var/log, /var/mail, and /var/spool and see if you can determine the culprit. The most interesting ones should be (in no particular order):
/var/log/mail.log
/var/log/daily.out
/var/log/weekly.out
/var/log/monthly.out
/var/log/system.log
(grep for sendmail)
/var/cron/tabs/*
/var/spool/mail/*
(if there is such a folder)
/var/spool/sendmail/*
(if there is such a folder)
/var/spool/mqueue/*
Most likely thing is that it is some experimental cronjob you tried that invokes sendmail.
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